Anh Ba Sàm Blog archive

Anh Ba Sàm Blog archive, 2009 - 2017

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Nguyen, Vinh Huu
Title: Anh Ba Sàm Blog archive
Dates: 2009 - 2017 (inclusive)
20092017
Quantity: 0.8609 GB (31 electronic files)
Collection Number: 6354 (Accession No. 6354-001)
Summary: Vietnamese journalism blog on Western reportage about Vietnam
Repository: University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
Access Restrictions: No restrictions on access including analog and digital media. (Items themselves are commercial and playable/viewable in the Reading Room)
Languages: Vietnamese

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Nguyen Huu Vinh, better known as Anh Ba Sam, is a Vietnamese human rights defender and blogger. He is a former police officer and his father was a government minister and ambassador. In 2007 Vinh set up his first blog (The Ba Sam blog) and he then launched two other online platforms (Citzen's Rights and Writing Vietnamese History). In his blogs, Nguyen Huu Vinh wrote about social issues and human rights.

source: https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/case/case-history-nguyen-huu-vinh-ba-sam (accessed 15 Feb 2022)

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

"Anh Ba Sàm" first went online in 2007 with two sorts of fare: an objective digest of Western reportage on newsworthy events in and about Vietnam and thoughtful commentary by a distinguished stable of contributors. Colleagues of Vinh and Thuy have continued to publish the blog despite their incarceration. The blog has been hacked several times by unknown assailants. In the second half of 2015, as leaks on the Communist Party leadership contest proliferated, Anh Ba Sam's page views averaged over 100,000 daily. They spiked to 258,000 one day on the eve of the party congress. The arrest of Vinh and Thuy in May 2014 came in the context of acute tension between Vietnam and China. The site was first hacked in November 2010 by unknown assailants, and again in June 2011. On March 13, 2013, ABS was hacked again. This time its attackers hijacked the files and changed all the passwords.

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