25th January 2012
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Internet blogger Nguyen Van (Hoang) Hai (also known as Dieu Cay) :
— Internet blogger Nguyen Van (Hoang) Hai (also known as Dieu Cay) co-founded the independent Free
Vietnamese Journalists’ Club in 2007 and wrote articles critical of China’s foreign policies with regard
to Vietnam. He had publicly criticized government policies before his arrest in April 2008 and spoke
out for human rights in Vietnam on his blog. He was to have been released in October 2010, but is still
being held in indefinite detention on politically motivated charges of tax fraud and has been denied
access to his family and legal counsel. In July 2011, his wife went again to the prison where he was
last detained to try to see him and was reportedly told by a security official that he has “lost his arm.