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KATHMANDU: Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by the mistreatment in detention of two Vietnamese journalists who both received heavy sentences in 2021 and urges the authorities to release them immediately. According to a press statement issued by the RSF, on 3 September 2023, Vietnamese freelance journalist Lê Trong Hung began a hunger strike to protest against his detention conditions in a prison in Nghe An province, in the north-central part of Vietnam. A week prior, freelance journalist Pham Chi Dung informed his family that he had also stopped eating in protest of the mistreatment inside his prison in Dong Nai province, in the south of the country.