Ta Phong Tan | Status: Released | Vietnam
Ta Phong Tan is a Vietnamese Blogger, jurist, and former police officer. She was arrested on September 5, 2011 and sentenced to 10 years in prison for “conducting propaganda… More
President Obama: Discuss Human Rights in Vietnam
PEN urges President Obama to use his meeting with Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang to press for the release of dozens of writers who have been detained for their… More
PEN Remembers Vietnamese Poet Nguyen Chi Thien
PEN remembers poet Nguyen Chi Thien, who spent nearly three decades in prison in Vietnam and died on October 2, 2012. More
Lê Chi Quang | Status: Released | Vietnam
Lê Chi Quang is a lawyer and computer teacher who has written several essays criticizing the government. These essays were distributed through the Internet. More
Nguyen Vu Binh | Status: Released | Vietnam
Age 39, Nguyen Vu Binh is a former journalist who worked for 10 years for Tap Chi Cong (Journal of Communism), the official publication of the Communist Party of… More
Nguyen Xuan Nghia | Status: Released | Vietnam
Nguyen Xuan Nghia, a poet, journalist, essayist, and novelist, served a six-year sentence for "conducting anti-government propaganda" under Article 88 of Vietnam's penal code. The indictment against him cited… More
Tran Khai Thanh Thuy | Status: Displaced/In Exile | Vietnam
Tran Khai Thanh Thuy is a renowned novelist, poet, essayist, and editor of the underground democracy journal To Quoc (Fatherland) Review. She is a member of the underground pro-democracy… More
Actions Work: Tran Khai Thanh Thuy Released from Prison
Last week, PEN centers around the world celebrated the news that Tran Khai Thanh Thuy, a Vietnamese writer and PEN American Center honorary member who was serving a three-year… More
Vietnamese Writer Tran Khai Thanh Thuy Released from Prison, Exiled to U.S.
PEN American Center today welcomed news that jailed Vietnamese writer and PEN Honorary Member Tran Khai Thanh Thuy was released from a prison in Hanoi last week, and has… More
PEN Honorary Member Nguyen Vu Binh Released in Vietnam
PEN American Center welcomes the early release on June 9, 2007 of Vietnamese journalist Nguyen Vu Binh. More