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On 12 January 2022, Hà was arrested by provincial police in Tuyên Quang and charged with "making, storing, disseminating or propagandising information, materials and products that aim to oppose the State of the
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reported that Hà had claimed his writing was based on what he had seen on social media which he felt exposed corruption, power and status buying, territorial sovereignty issues, the exploitation of natural resources and minerals, inadequate compensation for victims of land confiscation, a lack of
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issued a statement following Hà's conviction, stating he had been "wrongly convicted and harshly sentenced... for merely doing his job as a journalist" and called on the
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Hà campaigned against the relocation of farmers who were displaced by a major hydroelectric project in Tuyên Quang province. Hà himself had been relocated as a result of the project, and criticised the
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