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Report corruption in Vietnam and get jail term not Pulitzer

by Amitjha | October 15, 2008 at 09:41 pm

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Vietnam land of consistant hostilities and crime, has no respect for freedom of speach.In a very strage case of reporting corruption, a senior jounalist, got jail term of two year.

Nguyen Viet Chien, 56, insisted he was innocent minutes before judge Tran Van Vy delivered the verdict.
Another journalist who had pleaded guilty was deemed to have served out a suspended sentence and freed.
The case has attracted criticism from abroad, with one human rights group calling it "revenge" against daring journalists revealing state corruption.
Two former police officers who were also on trial on related charges received respectively a year in jail and an official warning.
The case relates to a corruption scandal in Vietnam's ministry of transport that first came to light in 2006.
Both journalists vigorously pursued the story, which claimed several high-level scalps, but their reportage was later condemned by authorities as inaccurate and harmful.

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anamika.mis15

flagged this story as Good Stuff

at 23:22 on October 15th, 2008

Amitjha, I like this story. It's good stuff.

Amitjha

at 01:32 on October 16th, 2008

Thanks Anamika for GS flag,

This is very bad news for journo community, this kind of incident of jailing journalist for reporting corruption is going to jeopardise the whole philosphy of freedom of speach.

JoeLS (not verified)

at 07:15 on October 30th, 2008

This is an in-your-face thing to the World from backward Vietnamese Gov. The World especially those donors countries should take a closer look at this repressive regime before they give their money away to them. Corruption is from the top to bottom in this country people.