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- Poet Bui Chat was temporarily held <br />public security agents who brutally <br />for 2 days, 5 and 6 June 2011, <br />assaulted peaceful demonstrators; the <br />besides being assaulted and menaced <br />other decries the government's lack <br />by rascals after he accepted the Free <br />of resolve to defend the country's <br />Publishers 2011 prize awarded by the <br />sovereignty. <br />International Publishing Association <br />According to the Committee to Protect <br />(IPA) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. <br />Journalists (CPJ), Vietnam was one of the <br />- Writer Huynh Ngoc Tuan and his <br />countries that held the most journalists in the <br />two children Huynh Thuc Vy and <br />world .6 In 2011, through the criminalization <br />Huynh Trong Hieu were summoned <br />of the people's exercise of the freedom of <br />for interrogation on 11 August 2011 <br />speech, the Vietnamese government arrested, <br />by the Quang Nam provincial Office <br />accused, and detained lots of dissidents <br />of Information and Communications, <br />critical of the state. Outstanding ones <br />following the ransack of their house <br />include: <br />on 12 February 2011. During the <br />_ On 26 January 2011, dissident Vi <br />search, the police beat up the women <br />Due Hoi was sentenced to 8 years in <br />present, including Huynh Thuc Vy's <br />prison and 5 years under house arrest <br />grandmother Mai Thi Yen and her <br />(the sentence was reduced to 5 years <br />aunt Huynh Thi Thu Hong, and <br />in prison and 3 years under house <br />Huynh Thi Huong. Her cousin <br />arrest by the court of appeal on 26 <br />Huynh Ngoc Le was also arrested <br />April 2011) allegedly for his "anti - <br />when he tried to intervene to stop the <br />state propaganda." <br />brutalities against the old lady and <br />the other women. <br />- On 25 July 2011, Father Nguyen Van <br />Ly, the most famous and outspoken <br />- Journalist Nguyen Huu Vinh and <br />anti -state voice, was sent back to <br />Lawyer Le Quoc Quan were <br />prison after being exempted for one <br />summoned to the police station on 11 <br />year from prison for medical <br />November 2011 to be interrogated on <br />treatment. <br />their articles about Thai Ha parish. <br />They were then detained together <br />- During the weeks between the end of <br />with bloggers Le Dung, Chinh Pham' <br />July and early August, seven <br />Nguyen Lan Thang, and La Viet <br />Christian media people were arrested <br />Dung. <br />and accused of alleged activities <br />- Teacher Vu Hung was harassed and <br />purporting to overthrow the <br />i <br />government, ncluding Paul Le Son, <br />summoned to the police station on 11 <br />Pierre Ho Due Hoa, Francisco Xavier <br />October 2011 allegedly for his <br />Dang Xuan Dieu, John B. Nguyen <br />violation of the house arrest order <br />Van Oai, Pierre Tran Huu Due, <br />following his release from prison. <br />Antoine Dau Van Duong, Francisco <br />- Viet Khang (born Vo Minh Tri), a <br />Dang Xuan Tuong. <br />songwriter was arrested on 23 <br />December 2011, and currently <br />detained by the public security police <br />s The Committee to Protect Journalists, "In Vietnam, <br />without charges. He is the author of <br />crackdown on journalists in past six months," <br />the 2 famous songs put on Youtube. <br />http: / /www.cpj.org /2011 /10 /in- vietnam - crackdown- <br />One questions the conscience of the <br />on journalists -in -past- six - mo.php (accessed 16 Jan <br />2012). <br />Vietnam Human Rights Network * Annual Report 2011 6 <br />