Ladies and gentlemen, before joining the United Nations Human Rights Council, Vietnam pledged and promised to do many things. It promised to carry out free elections, it promised not to punish the bloggers, and it promised freedom of expression and freedom of the press. But up until now, it has not fulfilled any of those commitments and is still not doing so, although sometimes for the sake of window-washing they would release one blogger, one dissenter, but then they would arrest three or four times more such people.
Those people have been given long prison sentences and even after being released were under house arrest, which is another form of prison, without the bars.
I would like to add that Vietnam was also a signatory of the UN convention against torture, but at the same time Vietnam continued to practice torture and even refused to allow the visit of a delegation from the commission to Vietnam.