"We have played the so-called mouse-and-cat game with the police and security forces since we established our football team," founding member and activist Nguyen Chi Tuyen told AFP. The football team was formed soon after, named after the U-shaped boundary that Beijing says demarcates its territory in the South China Sea -- and which Vietnam rejects. "The No-U team is a classic example of that," she said, adding that even meeting for the matches is "extremely risky". About twenty minutes later, security guards rushed onto the field, tearing the goal net down and ordering AFP journalists to leave. Days earlier another dissident with French nationality was stripped of his Vietnamese citizenship and deported to France.

Source: The Nation Bangkok July 26, 2017 03:22 UTC