The same day, the Chairman of the Thua Thien-Hue provincial People’s Committee issued a decision to change the administrative probation place for indicted Nguyen Van Ly.

Ly was sentenced to 10 years in jail in 1983 for sabotaging the bloc of great national unity. In 2001, he was sentenced to 15 years in jail for failing to comply with administrative decisions by authorised State agencies and for sabotaging the policy of national unity.

After being granted amnesty in February 2005, Ly had moved out of his place of residence 14 times without permission from probation officers. Under recent charges, Ly continued establishing contacts and colluding with some political opportunists and reactionaries at home and abroad to carry out activities aimed at undermining the State and denying the leading role of the Communist Party of Vietnam. His acts ran counter to the interests of the nation and the people and seriously violated State laws.

Most recently, before the Lunar New Year festival (Tet), Ly induced Nguyen Phong who resides at No. 86 Le Ngo Cat street, Hue city, and some other elements, such as Nguyen Binh Thanh and Hoang Thi Anh Dao, to hatch a plot to establish a party called “Thang Tien Vietnam” (Vietnam Advancement Party). After that, they wanted to merge the party with the “Dang Vi Dan” (For the People Party) of overseas reactionary organisations into a so-called “Lien Dang Lac Hong” (Lac Hong Inter-party).

They planned to publicise the Lac Hong Inter-party on lunar New Year’s Eve by dispersing documents, platform and regulations on the Internet and foreign reactionary radio stations.

Their scheme, however, was discovered and stopped in time. While conducting an administrative check at Ly’s residence, the police seized six computer sets, six printers, dozens of Internet telephone sets, 136 SIM cards and more than 200kg of documents concerning the establishment of reactionary organisations opposing the Communist Party and State of Vietnam.