Vietnam Facebook user jailed for criticising government
A court in Vietnam has jailed a Facebook user for 2-1/2 years over anti-government comments he posted on the social media website
This is as the Southeast Asian country continues its crackdown on dissent.
Despite sweeping economic reform and increasing openness to social change, Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party retains tight media censorship and does not tolerate criticism.
Thursday’s decision comes days after Vietnam jailed another Facebook user for two years and three months on the same charges.
Bui Manh Dong, 40, was convicted of “abusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the state” at a trial in the Mekong Delta province of Can Tho, the Ministry of Public Security said on its official news website.
He was accused of writing posts on his two Facebook accounts that “distorted the guidelines and policies of the party and the state, and defamed party and state leaders,” the ministry said in the statement, citing the court indictment.
Published: by Radio NewsHub