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Trang điện tử Tia Sáng thuộc Bộ Khoa học và Công nghệ đã bị nhà cầm quyền Cộng sản Việt Nam buộc phải đình bản hôm 27 tháng 10 năm 2009, sau 8 năm hoạt động. Trang điện tử Tia Sáng là một phần của Tạp Chí...
Cuối tháng 9 vừa qua, 200 ngư dân tỉnh Quảng Ngãi vào tránh bão số 9 tại quần đảo Hoàng Sa, bị lính Trung Quốc xả súng bắn xua đuổi; vì không còn cách nào khác, ngư dân ta phải chạy đại vào núp bão, thì bị đánh đập, cướp tài sản, ngư cụ… Sự kiện này đã khiến cho người Việt Nam không ai là không phẫ...
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Friends of Viet Tan FrontLine takes action on the arrest of Vietnamese writer Tran Khai Thanh Thuy. You can too!
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 26, 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S...
Ray Huynh
The last event of the comity supporting NGUYEN Tien Trung took place on
the 22nd of October 2009. This event started by a press meeting
occuring at the INSA (the university where Trung studied) followed by a
meeting on the main place of Rennes, main city of Brittany, France.
The
director of the INSA as well as many journal...ists (France3,
Ouest-France, Le Mensuel de Rennes and RSF) attended both meetings.
The main speakers were:
• Mrs Mono Bras, advisor for the region Brittany, assistant of the mayor of Guimgamp.
• Roselyne Lefrançois, assistant of the mayor of Rennes, in charge of international and European affairs.
• Jean-François Julliard, secretary of the association Reporter Without Borders.
All of them attended the event because they strongly reacted on the 7th of July 2009 after the arrest of Trung.
Alain
Jigorel, director of the INSA of Rennes, the university where Trung
studied IT started the press meeting: “I am director of the INSA but I
am here above all as a simple French citizen to defend freedom.” He
highlighted the fact that engineers have to respect social and human
values and above all freedom.
Mrs Roselyne Lefrançois: “I am
here today to show the involvement of the city of Rennes in favor of
Nguyen Tien Trung who studied in Brittany.” She believes that it is
highly important to know why Trung was arrested the 7th of July. She
added: “It is great that people get involved to develop freedom
throughout the world.”
She notified again the two letters asking for
more information about Trung sent to the Vietnamese embassy in
accordance with both the mayor of Rennes and assembly of the city. She
added that a letter was sent to Bernard Kouchner, minister of foreign
affairs to ask him to give us more news about Trung thanks to his link
to the French embassy in Vietnam.
Mrs Mono Bras represented
Monsieur Christian Guyonvarc’h, vice president of foreign affairs. She
confirmed the fact that the two letters notified above were correctly
sent. She also added that the government of Vietnam has been in charge
of security commission for the UNO since October 2009. Consequently,
the government of Vietnam has to respect fundamentals of the UNO and
among them Human rights which are universal. She also expected members
of the UNO to react to the current situation in Vietnam. She also
wondered how the «Trung case» would end since very strong sentences
such as death have already been used against dissidents. Moreover Trung
accomplished his military obligations. The government had since nothing
to reproach him. Mrs Mono Bras qualified the arrest of Trung as
scandalous and added that the regional council asks for the freedom of
Trung.
Mrs Mireille Ducassé, in charge of the IT department at
the INSA, was one of Trung’s lecturers. She said that Trung was a good
and serious student with a strong personality. She added that Trung
spent one semester in Danemark and one in the USA to accomplish
respectively an exchange program and an internship. She affirmed that
the arrest of Trung was truly stupid.
Mr Jean François
Juiliard, general secretary of RWB added that Trung was nominated for
the price of « cyber freedom » of RWF in December. He believes that the
arrest of Trung is representative of the countries where the access to
internet is not free of access. He reminded us of the worldwide ranking
about freedom of speech recently published by RWB where Vietnam ranks
166th over 175 countries. He added that Trung and 9 other Vietnamese
cyberdissidents were arrested since they wrote articles about freedom
and democracy what we can not understand in France. He thinks that the
only ways to change the current situation in Vietnam are both the
international pressure and the media. Indeed, the Vietnamese government
is afraid of emitting a bad image to the rest of the world. He
suggested to go on with the current actions we are leading.
Hoai
Nam NGUYEN, Trung’s brother, vice-president of the comity supporting
Trung said that Trung’s family did not get any information since
Trung’s arrest, four months ago. He indicated that a lawyer cancelled
his action for Trung because of the pressure of the police. He then
presented the other Vietnamese taking part into the meeting. Among
them, the writer Vu Thu Hien, Mr Nguyen Quoc Nam (member of the
alliance for the democracy in Vietnam), Mr Nguyen Viet Quoc (member of
the association of the young Vietnamese for democracy).
The atmosphere became really emotive when Remy, one of Trung best friend, began to cry.
Interviews of participants closed the press meeting.
The
participants of the press meeting then reached the main place of Rennes
to gather signatures and inform people about Trung’s arrest. More than
300 signatures were gathered.
Trung in the newspapers :
* Le Mensuel de Rennes
o http://www.facebook.com/l/9a070;www.leme
* Ouest France
o http://www.facebook.com/l/9a070;www.oues
the 22nd of October 2009. This event started by a press meeting
occuring at the INSA (the university where Trung studied) followed by a
meeting on the main place of Rennes, main city of Brittany, France.
The
director of the INSA as well as many journal...ists (France3,
Ouest-France, Le Mensuel de Rennes and RSF) attended both meetings.
The main speakers were:
• Mrs Mono Bras, advisor for the region Brittany, assistant of the mayor of Guimgamp.
• Roselyne Lefrançois, assistant of the mayor of Rennes, in charge of international and European affairs.
• Jean-François Julliard, secretary of the association Reporter Without Borders.
All of them attended the event because they strongly reacted on the 7th of July 2009 after the arrest of Trung.
Alain
Jigorel, director of the INSA of Rennes, the university where Trung
studied IT started the press meeting: “I am director of the INSA but I
am here above all as a simple French citizen to defend freedom.” He
highlighted the fact that engineers have to respect social and human
values and above all freedom.
Mrs Roselyne Lefrançois: “I am
here today to show the involvement of the city of Rennes in favor of
Nguyen Tien Trung who studied in Brittany.” She believes that it is
highly important to know why Trung was arrested the 7th of July. She
added: “It is great that people get involved to develop freedom
throughout the world.”
She notified again the two letters asking for
more information about Trung sent to the Vietnamese embassy in
accordance with both the mayor of Rennes and assembly of the city. She
added that a letter was sent to Bernard Kouchner, minister of foreign
affairs to ask him to give us more news about Trung thanks to his link
to the French embassy in Vietnam.
Mrs Mono Bras represented
Monsieur Christian Guyonvarc’h, vice president of foreign affairs. She
confirmed the fact that the two letters notified above were correctly
sent. She also added that the government of Vietnam has been in charge
of security commission for the UNO since October 2009. Consequently,
the government of Vietnam has to respect fundamentals of the UNO and
among them Human rights which are universal. She also expected members
of the UNO to react to the current situation in Vietnam. She also
wondered how the «Trung case» would end since very strong sentences
such as death have already been used against dissidents. Moreover Trung
accomplished his military obligations. The government had since nothing
to reproach him. Mrs Mono Bras qualified the arrest of Trung as
scandalous and added that the regional council asks for the freedom of
Trung.
Mrs Mireille Ducassé, in charge of the IT department at
the INSA, was one of Trung’s lecturers. She said that Trung was a good
and serious student with a strong personality. She added that Trung
spent one semester in Danemark and one in the USA to accomplish
respectively an exchange program and an internship. She affirmed that
the arrest of Trung was truly stupid.
Mr Jean François
Juiliard, general secretary of RWB added that Trung was nominated for
the price of « cyber freedom » of RWF in December. He believes that the
arrest of Trung is representative of the countries where the access to
internet is not free of access. He reminded us of the worldwide ranking
about freedom of speech recently published by RWB where Vietnam ranks
166th over 175 countries. He added that Trung and 9 other Vietnamese
cyberdissidents were arrested since they wrote articles about freedom
and democracy what we can not understand in France. He thinks that the
only ways to change the current situation in Vietnam are both the
international pressure and the media. Indeed, the Vietnamese government
is afraid of emitting a bad image to the rest of the world. He
suggested to go on with the current actions we are leading.
Hoai
Nam NGUYEN, Trung’s brother, vice-president of the comity supporting
Trung said that Trung’s family did not get any information since
Trung’s arrest, four months ago. He indicated that a lawyer cancelled
his action for Trung because of the pressure of the police. He then
presented the other Vietnamese taking part into the meeting. Among
them, the writer Vu Thu Hien, Mr Nguyen Quoc Nam (member of the
alliance for the democracy in Vietnam), Mr Nguyen Viet Quoc (member of
the association of the young Vietnamese for democracy).
The atmosphere became really emotive when Remy, one of Trung best friend, began to cry.
Interviews of participants closed the press meeting.
The
participants of the press meeting then reached the main place of Rennes
to gather signatures and inform people about Trung’s arrest. More than
300 signatures were gathered.
Trung in the newspapers :
* Le Mensuel de Rennes
o http://www.facebook.com/l/9a070;www.leme
* Ouest France
o http://www.facebook.com/l/9a070;www.oues
Source: www.facebook.com
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