News at Eleven: Foreign governments and rights groups

have repeatedly expressed concern over the lack of freedom of expression in Vietnam, where all traditional media are controlled by the state.

Bjorn Smith-Simonsen, who chairs IPA's Freedom to Publish Committee, said the arrest appeared to be "directly linked" to [Bui] Chat's receipt of the prize, which honours the defence and promotion of freedom to publish.

IPA called Chat, the founder of Giay Vun Publishing House, "a courageous underground publisher" who issues the works of "pavement poets" and helped to create an independent publishing movement.

from AFP: Vietnam 'detains prize-winning publisher'

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