John Hopkins University

SOUTHEAST ASIA STUDIES PROGRAM PRESENTS

 

 

 

A Lecture by

DOAN VIET HOAT

 

MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2002

5:30 to 7:00 PM

 

SAIS ROME AUDITORIUM (1^st Floor)

1619 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE, NW

WASHINGTON, DC 20036

 

 

Doan Viet Hoat is one of Vietnam’s most prominent political journalists and dissidents. After 1975, he spent 19 years in various Vietnamese detention, labor, and reeducation camps for criticizing the Vietnamese government’s political and economic policies and for publishing an independent newsletter. His refusal to bow to government pressure earned him numerous human rights awards, among them the 1995 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, a 1994 PEN Freedom-to-Write award, and a 1993 Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists. Mr. Hoat was exiled from Vietnam in 1998 and now lives in the Washington DC area.

 

A reception will follow Mr. Hoat’s lecture.

 

Please reserve your place by email to wshishak@jhu.edu, or fax to (202) 663-7711, or by telephone to (202) 663-5837

 

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