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Our online compatriot jailed in Vietnam
: A journalist in Vietnam has been sentenced to seven years in prison for what he wrote online (Human Rights Watch letter here).
China, Iran, Vietnam — the list of countries jailing people for what they write on the Internet is, tragically, growing.
exactly what I have been writing about; the unlimited free speech of blog
But that’s nothing to what the Dixie Chix have been through. Or Susan Sarandon.
Where is Arundhati Roy to protect free speech and the rights to dissent for the truly oppressed when we need her?