On March 28, the People’s Court of Hanoi convicted local activist Truong Van Dung of “conducting anti-state propaganda” under Article 88 of the country’s Penal Code for giving interviews to foreign-based media and possessing books with critical content for the communist regime.
At the end of the hearing which lasted several hours in Tuesday morning, the activist was sentenced to six years in prison.
One day later, the People’s Court in the southern province of Dong Nai rejected appeal of local Youtuber Nguyen Thai Hung and his wife Vu Thi Kim Hoang, upholding the prison sentences of four years for him and two and half years for her given by the lower cort in the first-instance hearing in December last year.
The People’s Court of Hanoi will hold the first-instance hearing on April 12 to try local activist Nguyen Lan Thang on the allegation of “conducting anti-state propaganda” under Article 117 of the Criminal Code for his online activities.
The hearing will be closed for public, the court said without further explanation.
The 46-year-old blogger and activist is accused of spreading 12 videos and two books with contents that allegedly defame the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam and its government.
He was arrested on July 5, 2022 and has been held incommunicado from his family and lawyers since his arrest.
Although he has been involved in political activism for at least ten years and has a Facebook page with over 150,000 followers, Thang has not been very active since the birth of his second child two years ago, and his Facebook account had been administered by other people for many months prior to his arrest.
He is facing imprisonment of between five years and 12 years in prison, even twenty years of imprisonment if convicted.
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April 3, 2023
Vietnam Defend the Defenders (DTD)’s Weekly Report for March 27-April 02, 2023: Activist Truong Van Dung Sentenced to Six Years for Giving Interview and Possessing Books
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On March 28, the People’s Court of Hanoi convicted local activist Truong Van Dung of “conducting anti-state propaganda” under Article 88 of the country’s Penal Code for giving interviews to foreign-based media and possessing books with critical content for the communist regime.
At the end of the hearing which lasted several hours in Tuesday morning, the activist was sentenced to six years in prison.
One day later, the People’s Court in the southern province of Dong Nai rejected appeal of local Youtuber Nguyen Thai Hung and his wife Vu Thi Kim Hoang, upholding the prison sentences of four years for him and two and half years for her given by the lower cort in the first-instance hearing in December last year.
The People’s Court of Hanoi will hold the first-instance hearing on April 12 to try local activist Nguyen Lan Thang on the allegation of “conducting anti-state propaganda” under Article 117 of the Criminal Code for his online activities.
The hearing will be closed for public, the court said without further explanation.
The 46-year-old blogger and activist is accused of spreading 12 videos and two books with contents that allegedly defame the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam and its government.
He was arrested on July 5, 2022 and has been held incommunicado from his family and lawyers since his arrest.
Although he has been involved in political activism for at least ten years and has a Facebook page with over 150,000 followers, Thang has not been very active since the birth of his second child two years ago, and his Facebook account had been administered by other people for many months prior to his arrest.
He is facing imprisonment of between five years and 12 years in prison, even twenty years of imprisonment if convicted.
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