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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 13:57:38 -0500 Subject: (Fwd) Think this isn't going to happen in the 'Homeland'? [...] http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020419/wr_nm/rights_vietnam_dissident_dc_1&printer=1 Hanoi Arrests Internet Dissident Thu Apr 18,11:04 PM ET HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam has arrested a dissident for publishing anti-government texts on the Internet, authorities said on Friday. Expanding Internet usage in Vietnam in recent years has posed a serious challenge to the communist government's efforts to maintain a monopoly on information and stifle critical voices. Pham Hong Son was arrested by detectives of the Ministry of Public Security on March 27 to "clarify the level of his infringement," a government statement said. "Pham Hong Son...has sent and received anti-state and anti-Vietnam Communist Party documents," it said. "Although (he) was reminded and educated many times by authorities and functional agencies, Son still deliberately infringed." [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign this pro-therapeutic cloning petition: http://www.franklinsociety.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------
