Nhan Van Affair
The Nhân Văn affair (or the Nhân Văn-Giai Phẩm movement, Vietnamese Phong Trào Nhân Văn-Giai Phẩm) was a political controversy in North Vietnam in the late 1950s. Following a loosening of political restrictions with some similarities to the Chinese Hundred Flowers Campaign, there was a hardening of attitudes. Two periodicals were closed down and their political associates imprisoned or exiled. They published the Nhân Văn paper and the Giai Phẩm periodical, with articles demanding freedom of speech, and that certain human rights be respected. They also commented that Communist Party leaders had violated the Constitution of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. The affair is named for the suppression of two independent newspapers in North Vietnam in 1956:
Read more about Nhan Van Affair: Nhân Văn Journal, 1955-1956, Giai Phẩm Mùa Xuân Journal, 1956, Arrests, Rehabilitation
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