Vietnamese authorities say they have arrested journalist and historian Truong Huy San, known by his pen name Huy Duc. According to government reports, the journalist was charged with a Facebook post being in violation of national security laws. That’s against a backdrop of diminishing freedom for the press in Vietnam. The World’s host Marco Werman gets the story and its implications.
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