The People’s Court of southern Dong Nai province on December 10 handed down prison sentences to four defendants on charge of spreading distorted information to undermine the State.
The court gave Doan Van Dien, born in 1954, 4 years and 6 months; Tran Thi Le Hong, born in 1959, 3 years; and Doan Huy Chuong, born in 1985, and Phung Quang Quyen, born in 1956, 1 year and 6 months each, in prison, for “abusing democracy and the right to freedom and infringing upon the interests of the State, and the legitimate rights and interests of organisations and citizens” according to Article 258 of the Criminal Code.
According to the verdict, since April 2005, Dien, Hong and Quyen have been engaged in collecting land-related complaints in Vietnam and then sent them to Trinh Thi Ngoc Anh in the US to change the content matter before uploading them onto an reactionary website in order to slander the Vietnamese State.
Dien even asked his son Chuong to role-play a worker to give a phone interview to Hoa Mai Club Radio (name of the reactionary website) and the Radio Free Asia (RFA), to distort the facts, saying that the Vietnamese authorities had repressed workers and arrested demonstrators.
Hong and Dien were also authors of a document which falsely accused the Vietnamese State of depriving citizens of land and homes and repressing workers, which was then published on the Hoa Mai Club website.
In October 2006, Dien prepared and distributed anti-State leaflets while Vietnam was hosting the 14th APEC Economic Leaders’ meeting in Hanoi.
According to the verdict, since April 2005, Dien, Hong and Quyen have been engaged in collecting land-related complaints in Vietnam and then sent them to Trinh Thi Ngoc Anh in the US to change the content matter before uploading them onto an reactionary website in order to slander the Vietnamese State.
Dien even asked his son Chuong to role-play a worker to give a phone interview to Hoa Mai Club Radio (name of the reactionary website) and the Radio Free Asia (RFA), to distort the facts, saying that the Vietnamese authorities had repressed workers and arrested demonstrators.
Hong and Dien were also authors of a document which falsely accused the Vietnamese State of depriving citizens of land and homes and repressing workers, which was then published on the Hoa Mai Club website.
In October 2006, Dien prepared and distributed anti-State leaflets while Vietnam was hosting the 14th APEC Economic Leaders’ meeting in Hanoi.
VOVNews/VNS
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