Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

It is believed that Mr. Quan’s detention is politically motivated and a reaction to his blog, where he frequently exposed human rights violations by the Vietnamese government.

Jailed Vietnamese blogger and human rights lawyer Le Quoc Quan has launched a hunger strike to protest the refusal by prison authorities to provide him access to legal counsel, access to legal and religious books, and access to a priest for spiritual guidance, ahead of his appeal trial on 18 February 2014 in Hanoi.

On 11 February, The Day We Fight Back, organisations and individuals around the world demanded an end to mass surveillance.

11 February is the Day We Fight Back Against Mass Surveillance. Join more than 400 organisations, including several IFEX members, and 250,000 individuals and sign on to the Necessary and Proportionate Principles.

195 civil society organisations from around the world have called on the UN to put government accountability and independent media at the centre of a new framework for global development.

Network neutrality—the idea that Internet service providers should treat all data that travels over their networks equally—is a principle that EFF strongly supports. However, the power to enforce equal treatment on the Internet can easily become the power to control the Internet in less beneficent ways.

Data Privacy Day, commemorated each year on 28 January, is aimed at promoting our right to control our personal information and to protect our communications from unchecked surveillance.

On 11 February 2014, on the Day We Fight Back, the world will demand an end to mass surveillance in every country, by every state, regardless of boundaries or politics. The global digital rights community is inspired by the memory of US activist Aaron Swartz and fueled by the victory against SOPA and ACTA.