Now even ordinary Vietnamese social media users with no appreciable public profiles risk arrest if they voice a grievance against communist party officials, HRW said. — Photo by Linh Pham on Unsplash
BANGKOK: Vietnam is targeting ordinary social media users for posts criticising the state in an expanding crackdown on dissent, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on April 22.
Vietnam, a one-party state, has long sentenced bloggers and human rights activists to hefty jail terms, but now even those with no appreciable public profiles risk arrest if they voice a grievance against communist party officials, HRW said in a report.
