Index on Censorship » Nguyen Van Khuong http://www.indexoncensorship.org for free expression Fri, 17 May 2013 16:22:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 for free expression Index on Censorship no for free expression Index on Censorship » Nguyen Van Khuong http://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/Free_Speech_Bites_Logo.jpg http://www.indexoncensorship.org Vietnam: Journalist who exposed corruption arrested http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/01/vietnam-nguyen-van-khuong-police-corruption/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/01/vietnam-nguyen-van-khuong-police-corruption/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:53:49 +0000 Marta Cooper http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=31655 Vietnamese journalist Nguyen Van Khuong was arrested this week on suspicion of bribery after he ran an expose on corruption among traffic police in his newspaper, Tuoi Tre. The reporter is said to have paid a bribe of 15 million dong (458 GBP) to a police officer to secure the release of an impounded vehicle. The officer [...]

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]]> arrested this week on suspicion of bribery after he ran an expose on corruption among traffic police in his newspaper, Tuoi Tre. The reporter is said to have paid a bribe of 15 million dong (458 GBP) to a police officer to secure the release of an impounded vehicle. The officer in question was arrested after Khuong’s story was published, and Khuong was suspended by the paper on 3 December. Tuoi Tre quoted him as saying he had made an error in gathering evidence for a series of stories about police corruption, but he did not say he had provided the bribe.

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