The People’s Court of Hanoi on August 10 handed down a five-yearsentence and four years probation to Le Thanh Tung on a charge of"conducting propaganda against the State of the Socialist Republic ofVietnam".
The court said this was pursuant to Points A and C, Clause 1, Article 88 of Vietnam’s Penal Code.
Accordingto the verdict, Tung, born in 1968 in Hanoi’s Soc Son district, wasfound to have written and posted on the Internet several articles fromAugust 2009 to October 2011, distorting the truth about Viet Nam’ssociety and authorities, sabotaging the National Party Congress and theelections of the National Assembly and People’s Councils.
Theinvestigation was conducted at the request of the Hanoi Department ofInformation and Communications, which held that there were a number ofarticles by a man who described himself as a reporter for the "VietnamFreedom and Democracy Movement".
The articles were said tohave defamed the administration, demanded a multi-party system - andchanges to the nation's constitution.-VNA
The court said this was pursuant to Points A and C, Clause 1, Article 88 of Vietnam’s Penal Code.
Accordingto the verdict, Tung, born in 1968 in Hanoi’s Soc Son district, wasfound to have written and posted on the Internet several articles fromAugust 2009 to October 2011, distorting the truth about Viet Nam’ssociety and authorities, sabotaging the National Party Congress and theelections of the National Assembly and People’s Councils.
Theinvestigation was conducted at the request of the Hanoi Department ofInformation and Communications, which held that there were a number ofarticles by a man who described himself as a reporter for the "VietnamFreedom and Democracy Movement".
The articles were said tohave defamed the administration, demanded a multi-party system - andchanges to the nation's constitution.-VNA
