Former journalist Pham Doan Trang said she was held for questioning for several hours on Saturday over her most recent work Politics for the Masses, which is outlawed in the country. She was placed under de facto house arrest by plain-clothes police, vowing Thursday to continue pressing for democracy in the one-party state. The former journalist has previously been detained in Vietnam November last year, after meeting with EU officials in Hanoi to discuss human right issues. The meeting with the EU delegation was held right before the commencement of their annual Human Rights Dialogue with Vietnam. On the contrary, as cited by Vietnam News Agency, Ambassador Duong Chi Dung, head of the Permanent Mission of Vietnam to the UN, Vietnam has been taking its commitments about fighting torture and supporting civil and political rights seriously and will always ensure that its people’s rights are protected.