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Springfield Armory recently introduced its first-ever bolt-action rifle, the Model 2020 Waypoint, which is designed for long-range pursuits.https://www.shootingillustrated.com/articles/2020/9/29/first-look-springfield-armory-model-2020-waypoint/
Springfield Armory took its first step into the bolt-action rifle market this year with the Model 2020 Waypoint.https://www.americanrifleman.org/articles/2020/9/29/preview-springfield-armory-model-2020-waypoint/
Comp-Tac recently introduced new handgun holsters in multiple different product lines for Glock Gen 5 pistols in .40 S&W.https://www.shootingillustrated.com/articles/2020/9/29/first-look-comp-tac-holsters-for-glock-gen-5-handguns/
Welcome back to another installment of our series of articles dedicated to firearms consigned and sold at the largest American auction houses. Last time, we took a look at some of the most obscure guns found in the catalog of the September 2020 Rock Island Premier Firearms Auction. The auction took place from September 11th to […]
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This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission.
U.S. Congressman Alan Lowenthal announced on Friday that he has officially adopted Vietnamese journalist Nguyen Van Hoa, an RFA contributor jailed for seven years in Vietnam, as a prisoner of conscience under the Defending Freedoms Project, a project of the congressional Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission.
Under the project, U.S. lawmakers work to raise awareness of the cases of their adopted prisoners, advocating for their freedom or for a reduction in their sentences, and calling attention to the laws or state policies that led to their unjust imprisonment.
“I am proud to adopt Nguyen Van Hoa as a prisoner of conscience,” Lowenthal said in a Sept. 25 statement released by the California representative’s office.
“He is a man of conviction, who has been wrongly abused, detained, and imprisoned for trying to cover issues important to the Vietnamese people, but which are uncomfortable for the Vietnamese government to hear.”
Nguyen Van Hoa, 24, was jailed by the People’s Court of Ha Tinh in Nghe An province on Nov. 27, 2017 after filming protests outside the Taiwan-owned Formosa Plastics Group steel plant, whose spill in 2016 killed an estimated 115 tons of fish and left fishermen and tourism industry workers jobless in four central provinces.
Nguyen, who had blogged and produced videos for RFA, was arrested on Jan. 11, 2017 for “abusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the state under Article 258 of the Penal Code, but the charges against him were later upgraded to the more severe “conducting propaganda against the state” under Article 88.
Lowenthal had previously advocated for Nguyen’s release, writing letters to Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc calling for the blogger to be freed, and to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, calling for U.S. government in the case.
Three other Vietnamese prisoners of conscience—Nguyen Tien Trung, Nguyen Cong Chinh, and Nguyen Van Dai—have already been freed, due in part to Lowenthal’s advocacy on their behalf, the congressman’s office said.
Others also held
Two other contributors to RFA are also held in jail in Vietnam.
Nguyen Tuong Thuy, a blogger and vice president of the Independent Journalists’ Association of Vietnam, was arrested in May and charged with “making, storing, and disseminating documents and materials for anti-state purposes.” Still awaiting trial, he is now in custody at the Police Detention Camp on Phan Dang Luu Street in Ho Chi Minh City.
And in March 2019, RFA contributing blogger Truong Duy Nhat was sentenced to 10 years in prison, upheld in August on appeal, following his conviction in what authorities called a land-fraud case. He had been abducted in Bangkok in January 2019 and taken by force back to Vietnam after applying for asylum in Thailand.
Vietnam, with a population of 92 million people, has been consistently rated “not free” in the areas of internet and press freedom by Freedom House, a U.S.-based watchdog group.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) ranked Vietnam 175 out of 180 in its 2020 World Press Freedom Index. About 25 journalists and bloggers are being held in Vietnam’s jails, “where mistreatment is common,” The Paris-based watchdog group said.
“As Vietnam’s media all follow the Communist Party’s orders, the only sources of independently-reported information are bloggers and independent journalists, who are being subjected to ever-harsher harsh forms of persecution, including plainclothes police violence,” RSF said.
Vietnam has increasingly rounded up independent journalists, bloggers, and other dissident voices as authorities already intolerant of dissent seek to stifle critics in the run-up to the ruling Communist Party congress in January.
If the sale of Remington Outdoor assets is approved, then a number of companies under the Remington Outdoor conglomerate will go elsewhere.https://www.americanrifleman.org/articles/2020/9/28/judge-to-rule-on-remington-bankruptcy-sale/
Leupold recently introduced two new spotting scopes in the SX-2 Alpine HD line, either a 60 or 80 mm variant.https://www.shootingillustrated.com/articles/2020/9/28/first-look-leupold-sx-2-alpine-hd-spotting-scopes/
The introduction of a rimfire even better positions Glock in the handgun market.https://www.shootingillustrated.com/articles/2020/9/28/review-glock-g44-22-lr-handgun/
When it comes to maneuvering in the dark, knowing how to operate your rifle without light could be the difference between life and death.https://www.shootingillustrated.com/articles/2020/9/28/how-to-operate-a-rifle-in-the-dark/
If you have a taste and interest in weapons, this is where you’ll find some of the greatest photographers in the world on the subject. Let TFB’s Photo Of The Day be your daily guide. Today we’re looking at a LAW, or Light Anti-Tank Weapon, fired by a U.S. Marine in Kuwait (2020). Below you can […]
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