HANOI arrested a prominent blogger and dissident for “anti-state activities” hours after its government held annual talks on human rights with the United States, which said it was concerned about freedom of expression.
Pham Doan Trang, a writer who published widely on human rights and alleged police brutality, was arrested late on Tuesday in Ho Chi Minh City, according to the country’s public security ministry, for “making, storing, disseminating or propagandising information, materials and products that aim to oppose the State”.