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French journalist expelled from Vietnam for working without proper visa |
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April 15, 2000
HANOI, Vietnam, APR 14 (AP) - A reporter for a French magazine, who entered Vietnam without a journalist visa, has been as expelled from the country, a French Embassy official said Friday.
Evelyne Pasquier of the Paris magazine L'Express was seeking to interview political dissidents when she was detained Thursday in the southern commercial capital of Ho Chi Minh City, according to the embassy official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Pasquier arrived on a tourist visa, but had not obtained a journalist visa that Vietnamese officials require of the working media. She was placed on a plane Friday headed to France, the official added.
Vietnam's communist government keeps close tabs the media and has periodically expelled visiting journalists who did not have proper credentials or violated other rules.
Large numbers of foreign journalists have begun to arrive in Vietnam to report on the 25th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. The North Vietnamese communist forces seized Saigon on April 30, 1975, defeating the U.S.-backed army of South Vietnam and reuniting the divided country. |