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AS IT IS 2017-06-16 Honored Social Activist and Blogger Charged in Vietnam

2017-06-16 15:19来源:未知

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Blogger Me Nam

A Vietnamese blogger, honored by the United States for her activism, has been officially charged by the government of Vietnam.

 

Me Nam, or Mother Mushroom, faces three charges related to "conducting propaganda” against the government, VOA Vietnamese reported.

 

Her given name is Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh. She has been detained since October 2016 and faces up to 12 years in prison if found guilty. The law used against her has drawn international criticism for giving the government power to limit free expression. Several lawyers have offered to represent Quynh in court.

 

Mother Mushroom was honored with America’s International Women of Courage Award in March. The U.S. State Department award recognizes the “courage and leadership” of women around the world. She was not able to attend an award ceremony in Washington led by first lady Melania Trump.

 

A State Department spokeswoman praised Quynh for “exposing corruption, raising awareness about environmental protection and reporting on human rights violations in Vietnam.”

 

Vietnam's foreign ministry criticized U.S. officials for giving the award to someone being investigated for violating Vietnamese law.

 

Quynh also received the 2015 Civil Rights Defender of the Year award for speaking out freely against injustices and human rights abuses in Vietnam.

 

Quynh began blogging as Mother Mushroom in 2006. She is also a founding member of the Vietnamese Bloggers Network. It is one of the few independent blogging groups in a nation where the ruling Communist Party tightly controls the media and writers.

 

Among her recent campaigns, she blogged about the government's handling of a chemical spill at Formosa, a Taiwanese-owned steel plant in central Vietnam. The spill killed 80 tons of fish, embarrassing the Vietnamese government as images of dead fish along beautiful beaches were published worldwide.

 

Thousands of protesters demonstrated at the plant and in cities throughout Vietnam. The April 2016 incident is widely seen as having raised environmental awareness and activism in Vietnam.

 

The movement led the steel company to accept full responsibility for the fish kill. It also pledged to pay $500 million in damages for dumping toxic wastewater into the South China Sea.


Words in This Story

 

 

conductv. to carry out

 

courage n. ability to do something difficult or dangerous

 

exposeadj. cause to be known, especially something secret or dishonest

 

awarenessn. the state of knowing about something

 

embarrassingadj. make someone look foolish

 

toxic adj. containing something poisonous

 

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