Vietnamese Environmental Activist Gets 6 Years for Facebook Posts
A detained Vietnamese shrimp farmer and environmental activist was sentenced to six years in prison and five years’ probation Wednesday for writing politically charged posts on Facebook.
Nguyen Ngoc Anh had been arrested on August 30, 2018 in Ben Tre province on charges of making, storing, spreading and declaring transmitted information and documents to combat the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam according to Article 117 of Vietnam’s 2015 Criminal Code.
After the trial on Wednesday, Nguyen’s wife, Nguyen Thi Chau, told RFA’s Vietnamese service that her husband had been set up, and that he is not guilty.
