Vietnamese Facebook User Gets Six-Year Prison Term For ‘Negative’ Posts
Vietnamese democracy advocate Huyn Dac Tuy was sentenced on Wednesday by a court in southern Vietnam’s Quang Ngai province to a six-year prison term, followed by three years’ probation, for criticizing the country’s communist government in a series of online posts, according to state media reports.
Director of the Tuy Nguyet Construction Company in Quang Ngai, Tuy was arrested by the provincial Investigation Security Agency on February 22 and was charged with “making, storing, and distributing information and documents opposing the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.”
Tuy had used his personal Facebook page to post and share “negative articles” about Vietnam’s government and ruling party, and had encouraged his followers and friends online to resist state authorities, Vietnam’s Tuoi Tre newspaper said on Aug. 21.
