{"id":41716,"date":"2021-10-29T16:39:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T23:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41716"},"modified":"2021-10-29T16:39:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T23:39:43","slug":"on-the-conviction-of-journalists-affiliated-with-vietnamese-bao-sach-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41716","title":{"rendered":"On the Conviction of Journalists Affiliated with Vietnamese Bao Sach Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>10\/29\/2021 05:24 PM EDT<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ned Price, Department Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>The United States is deeply troubled that a Vietnamese court has convicted journalists affiliated with the Bao Sach (Clean Journalism) group, Truong Chau Huu Danh, Nguyen Phuoc Trung Bao, Nguyen Thanh Nha, Doan Kien Giang, and Le The Thang, sentencing them to multi-year prison terms for \u201cabusing democratic freedoms\u201d under Article 331 of the Penal Code.<\/p>\n<p>We understand this group of journalists focused on investigative reporting on corruption, which, of course, is not a crime.\u00a0 The five convictions are the latest in a troubling trend of detentions and convictions of Vietnamese journalists and citizens exercising their rights to freedom of speech and of the press, as enshrined in Vietnam\u2019s constitution.\u00a0 The United States calls on the Vietnamese authorities to protect these freedoms, to release these five journalists and all those unjustly detained, and to allow all individuals in Vietnam to express their views freely and without fear of retaliation.\u00a0 We urge the Vietnamese government to ensure its actions are consistent with the human rights provisions of Vietnam\u2019s constitution and its international obligations and commitments.<\/p>\n<p>Press freedom is fundamental to transparency and accountable governance.\u00a0 Authors, bloggers, and journalists often do their work at great risk, and we urge the Vietnamese government and other governments and citizens worldwide to ensure their protection.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10\/29\/2021 05:24 PM EDT &nbsp; Ned&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41717,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41716\/revisions\/41717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}