At the end of December, concerns rose about the fate of bloggers and peaceful dissidents when authorities detained human-rights lawyer Le Quoc Quan as he was taking his daughter to school on Dec. 27, and upheld earlier prison sentences handed to other prominent political bloggers, including Nguyen Van Hai, Ta Phong Tan and Phan Than Hai.
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