Vietnamese authorities have extended the detention of activist and blogger Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, often known as blogger Mother Mushroom, and kept her incommunicado, her mother told RFA's Vietnamese Service on 15 June 2017. Quynh, who was honored this year with the U.S. State Department's International Woman of Courage Award for her work highlighting rights abuses and promoting peaceful dissent in the one-party communist state, has been held incommunicado since her arrest by Vietnamese authorities last October. Nguyen Thi Tuyet Lan, Quynh's mother, told RFA she was told on June 4 by court clerk Trinh Thi Bien that her daughter's detention in Khanh Hoa province would be extended by two months and 15 days. "I immediately applied for a visit, and on June 5 I went to the detention center, but couldn't see Quynh despite the regulation that I can meet her when the investigation expires. They still refused," Lan said. "On Monday (June12), I asked the court again about who is in charge of my visit. They gave me a document saying it was the detention center," she told RFA. "Next Monday, June 19, I am going to the detention center again to ask for a visit, but I do not know what excuse they will give me this time," Lan added. Lan also said that since her daughter was arrested she has been followed constantly and blocked while walking by authorities as well as men in plainclothes. Authorities have said Quynh is being detained on charges of "propaganda against the state" under article 88 of the Vietnam Penal Code. UPDATE: On 29 June 2017, Vietnam's authorities will try Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh.