Phạm Đoan Trang Explained
Phạm Đoan Trang (born 1978 in Hanoi) is a Vietnamese author, blogger, journalist, publisher, and democracy activist.[2] [3] [4] [5] She received the 2017 Homo Homini Award from People In Need, who called her "one of the leading figures of the contemporary Vietnamese dissent".[6] In 2024, she is in prison after being convicted of “conducting propaganda against the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam”.[7] [8]
Work and recognition
Trang is the co-founder of the blog Luật Khoa tạp chí (English: "journal of law"). Her blog received around 20,000 daily visitors in 2018.
In 2013 she co-founded the Network of Vietnamese Bloggers with Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh.[9]
In 2017, she published Chính trị bình dân (English: "politics for everyone"), her ninth book. After that, she sought refuge at an undisclosed location, where she also spoke to the media.[10]
In 2018, Trang was awarded the Homo Homini Award by the Czech-based human rights organisation People In Need. She was lauded for using "plain words to fight the lack of freedom, corruption and the despotism of the communist regime".
She is also the co-founder of the publishing house Nhà xuất bản Tự Do (Liberal Publishing House) which in 2020 was awarded the International Publishers Association's IPA Prix Voltaire.[11] [12]
In 2022, Trang received the International Women of Courage Award from the United States Department of State.[13] She was awarded the CPJ International Press Freedom Award in 2022.[14]
In 2024, she received the 2024 PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write award, which is awarded annually to a jailed writer of conscience.[15]
Arrests
According to Reporters Without Borders (RSF), Trang was detained under de facto house arrest in February 2018. Her treatment by the government has been condemned by RSF.
On October 7, 2020, she was arrested by Hanoi police and the Ministry of Public Security Officers in Ho Chi Minh City for "making, storing, spreading information, materials, items for the purpose of opposing the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam".[16] She was charged under Article 117 of the penal code for "propaganda against the State", and faced a maximum sentence of 20 years in jail if convicted.[17] In late-2021, she was sentenced to 9 years imprisonment.[18] Amnesty International called the conviction "outrageous," saying that her treatment by the Vietnamese government "encompassing harassment, surveillance, threats, torture and bogus prosecutions, is cruelly emblematic of the Vietnamese authorities’ repression of peaceful human rights activism across the country."[19]
Notes and References
- Full interview Doan Trang. The 88 Project. 2020-10-08. vi.
- News: Gerin . Roseanne . 2018-02-26 . Vietnamese Activist Blogger Placed Under House Arrest in Hanoi . en . Radio Free Asia . live . 2021-10-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211214134615/https://www.rfa.org/english/news/vietnam/vietnamese-activist-blogger-placed-under-house-arrest-in-hanoi-02262018170229.html . 14 December 2021.
- News: 2018-02-27 . Well-known Vietnamese journalist hounded, facing imminent arrest . en . Reporters without borders . live . 2021-10-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220128154810/https://rsf.org/en/news/well-known-vietnamese-journalist-hounded-facing-imminent-arrest . 28 January 2022.
- Web site: Gruberová . Zuzana . 2018-02-13 . The Homo Homini Prize for 2017 Will Be Awarded to a Persecuted Vietnamese Blogger . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20211029184308/https://www.peopleinneed.net/the-homo-homini-prize-for-2017-will-be-awarded-to-a-persecuted-vietnamese-blogger-4888gp . 29 October 2021 . 2021-10-15 . People in Need.
- Web site: Anderson . Porter . 7 October 2020 . Vietnamese Publishing House Co-Founder Arrested Ahead of Frankfurt Appearance . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20211220010436/https://publishingperspectives.com/2020/10/vietnamese-publishing-house-co-founder-arrested-ahead-of-frankfurt-appearance/ . 20 December 2021 . 15 October 2021 . Publishing Perspectives . en-US.
- News: 14 February 2018 . Nhà báo Phạm Đoan Trang được trao giải nhân quyền Homo Homini . vi . Voice of America . 30 March 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211214134614/https://www.voatiengviet.com/a/nha-bao-pham-doan-trang-duoc-trao-giai-nhan-quyen-homo-homini/4254088.html . 14 December 2021.
- https://pen.org/user/pham-doan-trang/ PEN International website, Phạm Đoan Trang
- https://pen.org/press-release/pham-doan-trang-imprisoned-vietnamese-writer-and-dissident-to-receive-pen-americas-freedom-to-write-award-at-nyc-gala-may-16/ PEN International website, Pham Doan Trang, Imprisoned Vietnamese Writer and Dissident, To Receive PEN America’s Freedom to Write Award at NYC Gala May 16, article dated April 11, 2024
- https://the88project.org/known-affiliation/1/network-of-vietnamese-bloggers/ The 88 Project website, Affiliation: Network of Vietnamese Bloggers
- News: 2018-03-02. Blogger Phạm Đoan Trang ẩn trốn sau khi bị thẩm vấn. vi. BBC News Tiếng Việt. 2021-10-15.
- Web site: Prix Voltaire 2020. 2021-10-15. International Publishers Association. en-GB.
- Web site: Anderson. Porter. 2020-06-03. Vietnam's Liberal Publishing House Wins IPA's 2020 Prix Voltaire. 2021-10-15. Publishing Perspectives. en-US.
- Web site: 2022 International Women of Courage Award . U.S. Department of State . 22 May 2022.
- Web site: Pham Doan Trang, Vietnam . Committee to Protect Journalists . 1 March 2023 . 26 May 2024.
- https://the88project.org/profile/286/pham-doan-trang/ The 88 Project website, Phạm Đoan Trang, article dated June 13, 2024
- News: Thang. Quoc. Do. Ba. Du. Pham. 2020-10-07. Vietnamese woman arrested for anti-state propaganda. VN Express. 2020-10-07.
- Web site: 2020-10-07. Journalist Pham Doan Trang arrested on anti-state charges in Vietnam. 2020-10-07. Committee to Protect Journalists. en-US.
- Web site: Vietnam jails dissident journalist for 9 years over 'anti-state' acts. NBC News. 15 December 2021 .
- Web site: 14 December 2021 . Viet Nam: Crackdown on dissent continues with 'egregious' nine-year sentence for Pham Doan Trang . Amnesty International.
