Report  “Bloggers and Netizens behind bars” In a joint report the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its member organisation, the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR), call on the Vietnamese government to end its escalating assault on freedom of expression and its criminalisation of bloggers and netizens. The 44-page report, entitled “Bloggers and Netizens Behind Bars: Restrictions on Internet Freedom in Vietnam”, highlights the Internet as an increasingly popular source of independent news and a platform for civic activism in Vietnam, home to the region’s fastest growing population of Internet users. Bloggers and human rights defenders increasingly resort to the Internet to voice their political opinions, expose corruption, and draw attention to land-grabbing and other official abuses of power.