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Vietnam is increasingly jailing “prisoners of conscience†for comments made on social media platforms such as Facebook Inc, Amnesty International said, urging the US to challenge the government over the growing arrests during talks this week.
The number of imprisoned activists has increased to 128 from 97 last year as the government implements a new controversial cyber security law, the group said in a new report. US officials
will meet with Vietnamese
counterparts this week in Vietnam to participate in a human rights dialog, it said.
A cyber law that went into effect from January 1 would require international Internet companies such as Alphabet Inc’s Google and Facebook to open local offices and store data on Vietnamese users in the country. The government has yet to issue a decree detailing how the law will be implemented.
Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not respond to a request for comment.