Joint Submission by the Committee to Protect Journalists, Freedom House, and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights

reforms and improvements of and legislative Despite guarantees under the institutional framework in framework the law for many human conformity with the Affected persons: rights, the government does commitments and obligations - general not respect certain human of Việt Nam in the area of rights, especially in the area human rights (Djibouti); of freedom of expression, Source of position: assembly. [...] guarantee freedom of opinion and legislative The Government has and freedom of expression, framework increased its authority to 23 including on the Internet, in D43 Freedom of censor and control the the context of the adoption of opinion and internet through the 2019 the law on cybersecurity expression cyber-security law. [...] based on laws restricting and legislative The submitters are not freedom of expression and framework aware of any effort by the opinion, in particular articles D43 Freedom of government to review 79 and 88 of the Penal Code, opinion and convictions that were based according to the revised expression on articles 79 and 88 of the penalty ranges (Germany); Affected persons: Penal Code. [...] framework protects freedom and legislative The Government has of expression both offline and framework increased its authority to online and accordingly amend D43 Freedom of censor and control the the penal law and the law on opinion and internet through the 2019 cybersecurity to ensure expression Cybersecurity Law. [...] Guarantee the rights to Government authorities also freedom of expression and continue to use several freedom of assembly and provisions under the 2015 amend the Penal Code and the Criminal Code to persecute cybersecurity law to make journalists Article 109 sure that the limitations on (criminalizes “anti-state the right to freedom of propaganda”); Article 117 expression are in line with the (crim.