Tạ Phong Tần, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Tạ Phong Tần

Vietnamese blogger

Date of Birth: 15-Sep-1968

Place of Birth: Vĩnh Lợi, Bạc Liêu, Vietnam

Profession: blogger

Nationality: Vietnam

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

T? Phong T?n (born September 15, 1968 in Vinh L?i District, B?c Liêu Province) is a Vietnamese dissident blogger.
A former policewoman and a member of the Communist Party of Vietnam, she was arrested in September 2011 on anti-state propaganda charges for her blog posts alleging government corruption.
On 30 July, T? Phong T?n's mother Dang Thi Kim Lieng immolated herself in front of the government offices in B?c Liêu Province in protest of the charges against her daughter.
On 24 September 2012, T? Phong T?n was sentenced to ten years in prison.
Her arrest was protested by groups including the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the US State Department, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch. Released after about 3 of 10 years of sentenced arrest and has traveled to the US, where she arrived on Saturday 20 September 2015, as US Foreign Ministry and CPJ (Committee to Protect Journalists) said.