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Wife of Arbitrarily Detained Facebooker: He Only Exercised His Constitutional Rights

By Quynh-Vi Tran4 min read

The Prime Minister of Vietnam, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, announced today at a preparatory meeting for the DPRK-US summit in Hanoi that the country needs to “prove to the whole world that it is peaceful, friendly and orderly … as (the core of) its culture, a way of life of Vietnamese people.”

The price to pay for such an image could very well be the freedom of those who dare to exercise their constitutional rights like Le Thi Khanh’s husband, Tran Thanh Phuong.

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Quynh-Vi Tran

She’s the managing editor of The Vietnamese Magazine. With a background in law and journalism, she covers criminal justice, freedom of expression, and human rights in general.

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