Tran Hoang Minh at the court (Photo: anninhthudo) Hanoi (VNA) - The Hanoi People’s Court on July 20 opened the first-instance trialinvolving Tran Hoang Minh, 31, residing in Thanh Xuan district, Hanoi on chargeof “taking advantage of the rights to freedom and democracy to infringe uponState interests, legitimate rights and interests of organisations andindividuals” in accordance with Article 331 of the 2015 Penal Code.
Accordingto the indictment of the Hanoi People's Procuracy, via the personal Facebook account named “Tran Hoang Minh” andFacebook group “Chủ nghĩa xã hội không có gương mặt con người”(Socialism without human face), Minh posted articlesblackening the Party and State, slandering and insulting leaders of the Hanoipolice.
The court said Minh’s behaviours directly violated the Stateadministrative management order, affecting the leadership, legitimate rights andinterests of the Communist Party of Vietnam, breaching the interests of theState of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, and harming political security,social order and safety.
At the court, he admitted the violations as shown in the indictment and expressed remorse for his behaviors. Therefore, the board of judges agreed to reduce his sentence to five years behind bars./.
