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Mother Mushroom
Mother Mushroom (Vietnamese: Mẹ Nấm; born 1979 in Khánh Hòa, Vietnam) is the pen name of the Vietnamese blogger and dissident, Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh. Mushroom or Nấm in Vietnamese is the name of her daughter. She first used the pen name in her popular blog "Mẹ Nấm".
After having her first child, nicknamed "Nấm" (mushroom), Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh joined several parenting fora using Mẹ Nấm (Mother Mushroom) as her pen name, primarily to exchange parenting tips with others. Later on, her blogs developed to cover social issues.
Quỳnh says her motive for blogging is very simple: "I don't want my children to struggle and have to do what I'm doing right now."[citation needed]
Quỳnh writes blogs under the pseudonym Mẹ Nấm (Mother Mushroom) and has openly criticised the Vietnamese government over its human rights violations and corruption. She began blogging in early 2006 when she visited a hospital and witnessed many poor people in the hot sun desperately waiting for treatment, but ignored because they lacked money to bribe hospital officials.
In 2012, Quỳnh was one of the first interns of the Vietnamese Overseas Initiative for Conscience Empowerment.
In 2013 she co-founded the Network of Vietnamese Bloggers with Phạm Đoan Trang.
Quỳnh was first arrested in 2009 for blogging about government land confiscations related to a Chinese-backed bauxite mine and for printing T-shirts opposing the bauxite project. She was released nine days later, after she promised to close the blog.
On 21 May 2013, Quỳnh and fellow blogger Binh Nhì Nguyễn Tiến Nam were arrested and interrogated for several hours by the Khánh Hòa provincial police after publicly distributing copies of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights alongside balloons reading "quyền của con người phải được tôn trọng" (lit. 'human rights must be respected'). On 15 December 2023, Quỳnh was detained at an airport and had her passport confiscated while attempting to fly to Bangkok, Thailand to meet with a representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
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Mother Mushroom
Mother Mushroom (Vietnamese: Mẹ Nấm; born 1979 in Khánh Hòa, Vietnam) is the pen name of the Vietnamese blogger and dissident, Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh. Mushroom or Nấm in Vietnamese is the name of her daughter. She first used the pen name in her popular blog "Mẹ Nấm".
After having her first child, nicknamed "Nấm" (mushroom), Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh joined several parenting fora using Mẹ Nấm (Mother Mushroom) as her pen name, primarily to exchange parenting tips with others. Later on, her blogs developed to cover social issues.
Quỳnh says her motive for blogging is very simple: "I don't want my children to struggle and have to do what I'm doing right now."[citation needed]
Quỳnh writes blogs under the pseudonym Mẹ Nấm (Mother Mushroom) and has openly criticised the Vietnamese government over its human rights violations and corruption. She began blogging in early 2006 when she visited a hospital and witnessed many poor people in the hot sun desperately waiting for treatment, but ignored because they lacked money to bribe hospital officials.
In 2012, Quỳnh was one of the first interns of the Vietnamese Overseas Initiative for Conscience Empowerment.
In 2013 she co-founded the Network of Vietnamese Bloggers with Phạm Đoan Trang.
Quỳnh was first arrested in 2009 for blogging about government land confiscations related to a Chinese-backed bauxite mine and for printing T-shirts opposing the bauxite project. She was released nine days later, after she promised to close the blog.
On 21 May 2013, Quỳnh and fellow blogger Binh Nhì Nguyễn Tiến Nam were arrested and interrogated for several hours by the Khánh Hòa provincial police after publicly distributing copies of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights alongside balloons reading "quyền của con người phải được tôn trọng" (lit. 'human rights must be respected'). On 15 December 2023, Quỳnh was detained at an airport and had her passport confiscated while attempting to fly to Bangkok, Thailand to meet with a representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.