{"id":27577,"date":"2011-10-06T20:06:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T19:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=27577"},"modified":"2011-10-10T11:58:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T10:58:52","slug":"vietnam-two-citizen-journalists-facing-jail-for-operating-pirate-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=27577","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam: Two citizen journalists facing jail for operating pirate radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two citizen journalists face trial in <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Vietnam\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/vietnam\" target=\"_blank\">Vietnam <\/a>today for operating <a title=\"RSF - Two citizen journalists facing jail sentences for operating pirate radio\" href=\"http:\/\/en.rsf.org\/vietnam-two-citizen-journalists-facing-05-10-2011,41130.html\" target=\"_blank\">pirate radio to China<\/a>. \u00a0Vu Duc Trung\u00a0and\u00a0Le Van Thanh face charges of illegally retransmitting radio programmes after they began broadcasting Chinese-language programmes from\u00a0<a title=\"Sound of Hope\" href=\"http:\/\/sohnetwork.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sound of Hope<\/a> Network, a Chinese radio station based in California. According to a Vietnamese <a title=\"Clear Wisdom -  Two Practitioners in Vietnam to Stand Trial for Broadcasts Into China \" href=\"http:\/\/www.clearwisdom.net\/html\/articles\/2011\/4\/6\/124243p.html\" target=\"_blank\">Public Security Ministry<\/a> document, the programmes, which were critical of the Chinese government, were the subject of a note to the Vietnamese authorities, asking them to stop the broadcasts. The trial, which was due to begin today, has been <a title=\"Epoch Times - Trial of Vietnamese who broadcast in China postponed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/n2\/world\/trial-of-vietnamese-who-broadcast-into-china-postponed-62481.html\" target=\"_blank\">postponed<\/a> for the second time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two citizen journalists face trial in Vietnam today for operating pirate radio to China. \u00a0Vu Duc Trung\u00a0and\u00a0Le Van Thanh face charges of illegally retransmitting radio programmes after they began broadcasting Chinese-language programmes from\u00a0Sound of Hope Network, a Chinese radio station based in California. According to a Vietnamese Public Security Ministry document, the programmes, which were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"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":[7364,42,346,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27577"}],"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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27577"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27691,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27577\/revisions\/27691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}