Vietnamese court prison journalist Huy Duc for 30 months via Facebook posts | Freedom of press news
Huy Duc worked for an influential state newspaper before the author of a popular blog critical of the country’s leaders.
Leading an independent journalist and author of the book from Vietnam He was sentenced to 30 months in prison for the posts on Facebook critical of the Government.
After a trial that lasted only a few hours, the court in the capital of Hanoj sentenced 63-year-old Huy DUC that he “abused democratic freedom to violate the interests of the state” by publishing 13 Facebook articles.
“These articles have a large number of interactions, comments and shares, which causes negative impacts on the social order and security,” the indictment quoted by the Vietnam News Agency.
Huy Duc worked for an influential state newspaper before the author of one of the most popular blogs and Facebook in Vietnam, where he criticized the communist leaders of the country about corruption, media controls and cinema relations.
Huy Duc, whose real name is Truogong Huy San, is a former Lieutenant of the Elderly Army.
He was discharged from the state news in 2009 for criticizing the past actions of the former Communist Alliance of Vietnam, the Soviet Union.
In 2012, Huy Duc spent a year at Harvard University in Nieman Fellowship.
During his stay abroad, his account of life in Vietnam was published after the end of the war with the United States, the winning side.
His belief comes only a few months after blogger Duong Van Thai was closed for 12 years on charges of publishing information about the antiistat.
He had almost 120,000 followers on YouTube, where he regularly recorded Livestream critical of the Government.
In January, a reputable former lawyer was also in prison for three years through Facebook posts.
Just before his arrest in June, Huy Duc was targeting the Internet in a new powerful leader in Vietnam To Lamas well as its predecessor Nguyen Phu Tong. It is unclear whether the charges were related to these specific posts.
Vietnam, one -party state, has no free media and is strongly reduced due to any disagreement. It is one of the world’s best prison journalists, according to journalists without borders (RSF) of the press freedom group.
The RSF has previously said that its articles are “an invaluable source of information that allows the Vietnamese public to access censorship information by the Hannoia regime”.
The Rights Campaign says that the Government has increased its control of civil society in recent years.
In December he brought Vietnam New Internet rules They require Facebook and Tictok to check user identities and submit data to the authorities.
In accordance with “Decree 147”, all technological giants operating in Vietnam must check user accounts by telephone number or Vietnamese identification numbers and store these information with their full name and date of birth.
