The Investigation Security Agency ofthe Ministry of Public Security is working together with the procuracyand court to quickly bring to trial a serious case involving theviolation of national security.
Functional forceshave so far arrested, summoned and called in 27 persons, five of whomhave been prosecuted and put into temporary detention, including TranHuynh Duy Thuc, Le Cong Dinh, Le Thang Long, Nguyen Tien Trung and TranAnh Kim, for their acts against the Vietnamese State.
The General Security Department on May 17, 2009, identified Tran HuynhDuy Thuc, born in 1966, General Director of the One Connection InternetCompany (OCI), as the owner of the blog named “Tran Dong Chan” andseveral other blogs containing anti-State content.
On May 24, the Investigation Security Agency promptly arrested Thucwhile he was using the internet to link up with reactionary overseaselements.
Based on Thuc’s statement and documents seized, the agency arrested LeThang Long, General Director of the Innotech Company on June 4, and LeCong Dinh, Director of the Le Cong Dinh one-member Ltd. Co., on June13.
The agency then arrested Nguyen Tien Trung and Tran Anh Kim on July 7,and on July 16 arrested and expelled Vo Kevin Huan, who was sent toVietnam by Nguyen Sy Binh, head of an US-based exile Vietnamesereactionary organisation called the “People’s Action Party”.
Searching Thuc’s home, the investigation agency seized 169 writings of 1,189 pages on his e-mail, blog and text-chat.
Thuc confessed his acts against the State through 53 writings,including 14 criticising the Government’s operation and economicpolicies, 21 distorting the Party’s leadership, and 10 others splittingthe internal unity between the Party’s elite.
The results of the investigation, and Thuc’s affidavits and statements,showed that Thuc himself was the instigator of a scheme to set up the“Chan research group” in late 2005 with the aim of subverting theregime. He also provoked distortions of the Government’s policies andcriticism against the Prime Minister through blogs named “Tran DongChan”, “Change We Need” and “Psonkhanh”.
For his part, Le Cong Dinh admitted that he was introduced by NguyenTien Trung to join an exile reactionary organisation called the“Vietnam Democratic Party” in early 2008 and took part in its “standingcommittee” as from May 2009.
Dinh was appointed by Nguyen Sy Binh as General Secretary in June 2009,but his position was not yet made public when he was arrested.
In March 2009, Le Cong Dinh, Nguyen Sy Binh and Tran Huynh Duy Thuc inPhuket, Thailand, agreed upon seizing an opportunity to change thepolitical regime, which they called “time to raise the flag” in2010-2011.
Dinh wrote, collected and sent through his e-mail 60 documents of 413pages, including 33 he himself wrote to criticise the regime.
He collected 27 writings that criticised the Party and State’sreligious and education policies and the judiciary, calling for thereplacement of the Constitution.
These writings, sent to Dinh by exile reactionary individuals andorganisations, included a book titled “From Dictatorship to Democracy”translated by the exile reactionary group, the “Revolutionary Party forthe Reform of Vietnam” or “Viet Tan” for short, analysing non-violentstruggles to subvert political regimes in Asia and Europe.
Moreover, Dinh stored dozens of books written by dissident andpolitical opportunists that protested against and distorted the actionsof President Ho Chi Minh.
The police force also seized from Dinh a 112-page “New Constitution”.
Dinh obviously knew that Viet Tan was a terrorist organisation but hestill joined in its activities and made contacts with reactionaryindividuals such as Vu Thu Hien, Trinh Hoi, Nguyen Quoc Quan, Phuong Anand her husband, etc.
Dinh admitted he had 17 times met with foreign partners who pledged their support to him.
It was Dinh who raised the issue related to the Tay Nguyen ( CentralHighlands ) bauxite project, saying it would be a grave for thecommunist regime. Based on his idea, Thuc wrote “Central HighlandsBauxite: the grave the Communist regime digs to bury itself” on theblog “Change We Need”.
In regard to 26-year-old Nguyen Tien Trung, an IT expert, police foundin his computer 96 pages of documents related to the “VietnamDemocratic Party” and the “Democratic Youth Foundation.”
In 2002, Trung came to study in France , where he met withreactionaries such as Nguyen Gia Kieng – leader of the reactionaryorganisation, the “Pluralist Democracy Foundation” – as well as Bui Tinand Vu Thu Hien. These people recruited Trung and assisted him inestablishing the reactionary organisation “Democratic Youth Foundation”headed by Trung himself.
The organisation has borne the name since May 8, 2006, in France , withthe aim of gathering youths and coordinating with hostile forces bothin and outside Vietnam to sabotage the State and demand a change in thepolitical regime in Vietnam . This group had convened many meetings todiscuss plans to undermine the State of Vietnam.
Trung was then sent to the US by Nguyen Sy Binh and Nguyen Xuan Ngai tomeet with hostile forces, including leaders of exile reactionaryorganisations such as “Viet Tan,” the “Len Duong Vietnamese YouthNetwork,” the “Free Vietnam Alliance,” and the “Committee to ProtectVietnamese Workers.”
In December 2006, Trung joined the “Vietnam Democratic Party” led byNguyen Sy Binh and Nguyen Xuan Ngai, under the alias Nguyen TrongNghia.
In early June 2007, he was appointed by Nguyen Sy Binh member of the“Party’s” central committee, deputy head of the external relationsdepartment and head of the committee for youth affairs.
Early this year, Trung was nominated by Binh as a member of the“Vietnam Democratic Party” standing committee and deputy generalsecretary of the party, in charge of young people and publicising theirorganisation and developing forces.
Nguyen Tien Trung compiled and delivered 60 writings which comprise 90pages to distort the character of the Vietnamese Party and State,excite others to oppose it, and praise reactionary elements.
Tran Anh Kim, 60, had previously served 24 months in prison on chargesof “intentionally violating economic management regulations.” In 2006,Kim was admitted to the “Vietnam Democratic Party” of Hoang Minh Chinhand appointed a member of the party central committee.
On May 31, 2009, Kim was nominated by Nguyen Sy Binh as deputy generalsecretary of the “Vietnam Democratic Party.” Together with Nguyen VanLy, Nguyen Xuan Nghia and Do Nam Hai of the executive board of areactionary called “Group 8406,” Kim contacted and recruited vocalagitators to form core forces in an attempt to abolish the leadershiprole of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
Kim wrote 60 documents to defame the Vietnamese Party and State,distort the country’s situation, call for the abolishment of Article 4of the Constitution, demand a pluralist and multiparty government, andgather anti-State forces.
He also collected and provided fabricated information for overseasorganisations and individuals to sabotage the Vietnamese State . Kimadmitted that he had granted hundreds of interviews to foreign radiosand newspapers such as RFA, BBC and Chan Troi Moi, purposely distortingVietnam ’s political situation.
Kim opened two bank accounts and received nearly 60 million VND and3,000 USD from individuals and organisations both at home and abroad topurchase equipment (mobile phones, computers, etc) to serve hisactivities and support the efforts of a number of agitators to counterthe Party and State of Vietnam.
The 42-year-old Le Thang Long became a member of the “Chan researchgroup” of Tran Huynh Duy Thuc in late 2005. He directly wrote 12reports to distort the Vietnamese Party and Sate’s policies andguidelines, and the government’s management, and to call for a changein the country’s political regime.
Long colluded with exiled reactionaries to set up the “VietnamProgressive Democratic Movement,” with 10 “clubs” to develop itsforces.
Investigations found that these elements, including intellectuals andyoung businesspeople, acted in an organised way in an attempt toundermine and overthrow the Vietnamese State . They had linkages withexile reactionary organisations and received support from hostile,anti-Vietnamese forces.
This is an extremely serious case related to infringing upon national security. The defendants have admitted their guilt and asked for the law formercy. The decision by enforcement agencies to launch legal proceedingsagainst these reactionaries has received support from the people andpublic opinion./.
Functional forceshave so far arrested, summoned and called in 27 persons, five of whomhave been prosecuted and put into temporary detention, including TranHuynh Duy Thuc, Le Cong Dinh, Le Thang Long, Nguyen Tien Trung and TranAnh Kim, for their acts against the Vietnamese State.
The General Security Department on May 17, 2009, identified Tran HuynhDuy Thuc, born in 1966, General Director of the One Connection InternetCompany (OCI), as the owner of the blog named “Tran Dong Chan” andseveral other blogs containing anti-State content.
On May 24, the Investigation Security Agency promptly arrested Thucwhile he was using the internet to link up with reactionary overseaselements.
Based on Thuc’s statement and documents seized, the agency arrested LeThang Long, General Director of the Innotech Company on June 4, and LeCong Dinh, Director of the Le Cong Dinh one-member Ltd. Co., on June13.
The agency then arrested Nguyen Tien Trung and Tran Anh Kim on July 7,and on July 16 arrested and expelled Vo Kevin Huan, who was sent toVietnam by Nguyen Sy Binh, head of an US-based exile Vietnamesereactionary organisation called the “People’s Action Party”.
Searching Thuc’s home, the investigation agency seized 169 writings of 1,189 pages on his e-mail, blog and text-chat.
Thuc confessed his acts against the State through 53 writings,including 14 criticising the Government’s operation and economicpolicies, 21 distorting the Party’s leadership, and 10 others splittingthe internal unity between the Party’s elite.
The results of the investigation, and Thuc’s affidavits and statements,showed that Thuc himself was the instigator of a scheme to set up the“Chan research group” in late 2005 with the aim of subverting theregime. He also provoked distortions of the Government’s policies andcriticism against the Prime Minister through blogs named “Tran DongChan”, “Change We Need” and “Psonkhanh”.
For his part, Le Cong Dinh admitted that he was introduced by NguyenTien Trung to join an exile reactionary organisation called the“Vietnam Democratic Party” in early 2008 and took part in its “standingcommittee” as from May 2009.
Dinh was appointed by Nguyen Sy Binh as General Secretary in June 2009,but his position was not yet made public when he was arrested.
In March 2009, Le Cong Dinh, Nguyen Sy Binh and Tran Huynh Duy Thuc inPhuket, Thailand, agreed upon seizing an opportunity to change thepolitical regime, which they called “time to raise the flag” in2010-2011.
Dinh wrote, collected and sent through his e-mail 60 documents of 413pages, including 33 he himself wrote to criticise the regime.
He collected 27 writings that criticised the Party and State’sreligious and education policies and the judiciary, calling for thereplacement of the Constitution.
These writings, sent to Dinh by exile reactionary individuals andorganisations, included a book titled “From Dictatorship to Democracy”translated by the exile reactionary group, the “Revolutionary Party forthe Reform of Vietnam” or “Viet Tan” for short, analysing non-violentstruggles to subvert political regimes in Asia and Europe.
Moreover, Dinh stored dozens of books written by dissident andpolitical opportunists that protested against and distorted the actionsof President Ho Chi Minh.
The police force also seized from Dinh a 112-page “New Constitution”.
Dinh obviously knew that Viet Tan was a terrorist organisation but hestill joined in its activities and made contacts with reactionaryindividuals such as Vu Thu Hien, Trinh Hoi, Nguyen Quoc Quan, Phuong Anand her husband, etc.
Dinh admitted he had 17 times met with foreign partners who pledged their support to him.
It was Dinh who raised the issue related to the Tay Nguyen ( CentralHighlands ) bauxite project, saying it would be a grave for thecommunist regime. Based on his idea, Thuc wrote “Central HighlandsBauxite: the grave the Communist regime digs to bury itself” on theblog “Change We Need”.
In regard to 26-year-old Nguyen Tien Trung, an IT expert, police foundin his computer 96 pages of documents related to the “VietnamDemocratic Party” and the “Democratic Youth Foundation.”
In 2002, Trung came to study in France , where he met withreactionaries such as Nguyen Gia Kieng – leader of the reactionaryorganisation, the “Pluralist Democracy Foundation” – as well as Bui Tinand Vu Thu Hien. These people recruited Trung and assisted him inestablishing the reactionary organisation “Democratic Youth Foundation”headed by Trung himself.
The organisation has borne the name since May 8, 2006, in France , withthe aim of gathering youths and coordinating with hostile forces bothin and outside Vietnam to sabotage the State and demand a change in thepolitical regime in Vietnam . This group had convened many meetings todiscuss plans to undermine the State of Vietnam.
Trung was then sent to the US by Nguyen Sy Binh and Nguyen Xuan Ngai tomeet with hostile forces, including leaders of exile reactionaryorganisations such as “Viet Tan,” the “Len Duong Vietnamese YouthNetwork,” the “Free Vietnam Alliance,” and the “Committee to ProtectVietnamese Workers.”
In December 2006, Trung joined the “Vietnam Democratic Party” led byNguyen Sy Binh and Nguyen Xuan Ngai, under the alias Nguyen TrongNghia.
In early June 2007, he was appointed by Nguyen Sy Binh member of the“Party’s” central committee, deputy head of the external relationsdepartment and head of the committee for youth affairs.
Early this year, Trung was nominated by Binh as a member of the“Vietnam Democratic Party” standing committee and deputy generalsecretary of the party, in charge of young people and publicising theirorganisation and developing forces.
Nguyen Tien Trung compiled and delivered 60 writings which comprise 90pages to distort the character of the Vietnamese Party and State,excite others to oppose it, and praise reactionary elements.
Tran Anh Kim, 60, had previously served 24 months in prison on chargesof “intentionally violating economic management regulations.” In 2006,Kim was admitted to the “Vietnam Democratic Party” of Hoang Minh Chinhand appointed a member of the party central committee.
On May 31, 2009, Kim was nominated by Nguyen Sy Binh as deputy generalsecretary of the “Vietnam Democratic Party.” Together with Nguyen VanLy, Nguyen Xuan Nghia and Do Nam Hai of the executive board of areactionary called “Group 8406,” Kim contacted and recruited vocalagitators to form core forces in an attempt to abolish the leadershiprole of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
Kim wrote 60 documents to defame the Vietnamese Party and State,distort the country’s situation, call for the abolishment of Article 4of the Constitution, demand a pluralist and multiparty government, andgather anti-State forces.
He also collected and provided fabricated information for overseasorganisations and individuals to sabotage the Vietnamese State . Kimadmitted that he had granted hundreds of interviews to foreign radiosand newspapers such as RFA, BBC and Chan Troi Moi, purposely distortingVietnam ’s political situation.
Kim opened two bank accounts and received nearly 60 million VND and3,000 USD from individuals and organisations both at home and abroad topurchase equipment (mobile phones, computers, etc) to serve hisactivities and support the efforts of a number of agitators to counterthe Party and State of Vietnam.
The 42-year-old Le Thang Long became a member of the “Chan researchgroup” of Tran Huynh Duy Thuc in late 2005. He directly wrote 12reports to distort the Vietnamese Party and Sate’s policies andguidelines, and the government’s management, and to call for a changein the country’s political regime.
Long colluded with exiled reactionaries to set up the “VietnamProgressive Democratic Movement,” with 10 “clubs” to develop itsforces.
Investigations found that these elements, including intellectuals andyoung businesspeople, acted in an organised way in an attempt toundermine and overthrow the Vietnamese State . They had linkages withexile reactionary organisations and received support from hostile,anti-Vietnamese forces.
This is an extremely serious case related to infringing upon national security. The defendants have admitted their guilt and asked for the law formercy. The decision by enforcement agencies to launch legal proceedingsagainst these reactionaries has received support from the people andpublic opinion./.
