Four hours before the screening, the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand (FCCT) sends emails to members:
"Because of the complaint of the Vietnamese Embassy, the program of re-screening the film When Mother's Away was canceled this morning." The letter requesting the cancellation was sent to us by the Lumpini Police Station, Bangkok, This is followed by a visit to the FCCT club by a police colonel from the Special Forces. It seems that the Thai Foreign Ministry is not advised of this decision. "
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"We regret any inconvenience to those you intend to attend."
Contact the BBC Vietnamese, the FCCT Representative, for anonymity, for a letter sent by the Lumpini Police Station. Letter:
"The FCCT Club is planning to release the film on July 4 at Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, who is imprisoned for 10 years in prison for propaganda against the state. This film, because Thailand and Vietnam have agreed that this country will not allow individuals or organizations to have activities contrary to the interests of the other.
The reason FCCT wanted to re-watch the movie was because the BTS SkyTrain system last week was broken, so some people could not attend the first screening.
With respect to the cancellation order, the FCCT representative stated:
"To be honest, the police only followed the orders, and we knew this was not the foreign ministry," they said, referring to the National Council of Peace and Order (NCPO). Contemporary Thai government. "
"This has happened before. The Vietnamese Embassy, they are very closely monitoring our activities," the representative added.
Photo license ofTUYET LANImage captionTuyet Lan, mother Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, and two children of QuynhFrom Vietnam, Clay Pham, who directed the film, told BBC News after the news of the film was canceled:
"I know the Vietnamese government is reacting very strongly to the movie," Mother Away, "though it has no political tendency.
I have built the film in the direction of the story of a family of prisoners of conscience in Vietnam. But in view of the politicization of all things by the Vietnamese government, it seems that any publications relating to human rights activists, prisoners of conscience, are considered propaganda against the state. .
I am currently living in Vietnam. I fear that after trying to control the voice of international media, the Vietnamese authorities will try to persecute myself as well as my mother Mum Family - Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh.
I hope that international media and organizations interested in human rights will intervene and find ways to bring the film "Mother Away" widely, so that more people understand the truth has been hidden. long time in Vietnam; It is also a way to protect me and my mother's family. "
Image captionNguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh - A scene in the documentary 'When the mother is away'Mr. Trinh Hoi, representative of VOICE, is now in Bangkok, telling the BBC:
"I am not surprised that the Vietnamese government has succeeded in banning the documentary film The Mother of the World, although this film only speaks of Quynh's family situation since Quynh was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison, leaving home an old mother and two children's poetry.
"This shows us that the authorities are afraid of many people knowing the truth whether they are inside or outside the country, and for that reason VOICE will continue to bring the truth to light through the story. Mother Mushroom and Mother's Day documentary, In the coming time, I will personally represent VOICE to bring this film to the world. "
Talking to the BBC from Khanh Hoa, Tuyet Lan said that when she heard "she was surprised and worried", "I have not seen the movie myself, only through the introduction movie."
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Mummy was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in 2017 under Article 88, the offense against "propaganda against the state". Previously, this blogger participated in activities protest against Formosa, claiming Hoang Sa, Truong Sa for Vietnam.
In June of 1818, blogger Mother Mushroom won the International Journalism Prize of the Committee to Protect Journalists and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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