{"id":26163,"date":"2011-08-30T10:53:51","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T09:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=26163"},"modified":"2011-08-31T10:56:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T09:56:33","slug":"vietnam-pro-democracy-activists-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=26163","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam: Pro-democracy activists released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 2 September, the <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Vietnam\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/vietnam\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vietnamese<\/a> government <a href=\"http:\/\/en.rsf.org\/vietnam-eight-bloggers-get-sentences-12-10-2009,34653.html\">granted amnesty<\/a> to 10,000 detainees, including blogger Nguyen Van Tinh and poet Tran Duch Thach, in celebration of the nation&#8217;s 66th anniversary of independence. The pair were convicted of &#8220;propaganda against the socialist state&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5hFRQav0CeUEhSlmqkgY_roimR5Ng?docId=CNG.f17dd620575edb02954a7f8f0971f63b.1291\" target=\"_blank\">for hanging pro-democracy banners<\/a> in Haiphong in October 2009. Tinh was handed a three and a half year sentence for the crime, while Thach was sentenced to three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 2 September, the Vietnamese government granted amnesty to 10,000 detainees, including blogger Nguyen Van Tinh and poet Tran Duch Thach, in celebration of the nation&#8217;s 66th anniversary of independence. The pair were convicted of &#8220;propaganda against the socialist state&#8221; for hanging pro-democracy banners in Haiphong in October 2009. Tinh was handed a three and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[3719,727,3720,7397],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26163"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26175,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26163\/revisions\/26175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}