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Photo by Leon_Ting  on pixabay.com The State of Viet Nam continues to suppress citizens’ fundamental rights of expression. At the end of September, an imprisoned citizen, Trịnh Bá Phương , was sentenced to another 11 years for criticizing the ruling Communist Party. The dissident was already serving a ten-year sentence, passed in December 2021 , for “spreading anti-state propaganda”.   According to the prison officials, in Trịnh Bá Phương’s cell was found a banner denouncing

photo by Dylan_Agbagni  on pixabay.com On October 13th, 2023, an Israeli tank launched an attack on southern Lebanon, near the Israeli border. The attack killed a Reuters journalist, Issam Abdallah, and injured six other journalists from Al-Jazeera, Reuters and AFP . An investigation by the UN Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) found that the attack was launched against “clearly identifiable journalists” , meaning it was a deliberate attack on civilians, and thus a war crime