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Socialist Republic Of Vietnam V. Pham Thi Doan Trang, David Mccraw, Human Rights Institute
Socialist Republic Of Vietnam V. Pham Thi Doan Trang, David Mccraw, Human Rights Institute
Human Rights Institute
On the night of October 6, 2020, at the conclusion of a virtual human rights meeting between the governments of the United States of America and Vietnam, Vietnamese police arrested the journalist and human rights activist Pham Thi Doan Trang at her home in Hanoi. Ms. Trang was arrested and detained for allegedly “conducting propaganda against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam” and “making, storing, spreading information, materials, items for the purpose of opposing the State of Socialist Republic of Vietnam” — two of the most notorious of Vietnam’s fifteen national security offenses.
It would be a full year — during …