Nguyen Van Hoa at the court (Source:vietnamnet.vn)Ha Tinh(VNA) – The People’s Court of Ha Tinh province on November 27 sentenced NguyenVan Hoa, born in 1995, a resident of in Ky Khang commune, Ky Anh district, toseven years’ imprisonment for conducting propaganda against the State.
Hoa was also banned tomove beyond his hometown in three years after finishing his punishment.
According to theverdict, from 2013 to 2017, Hoa set up a number of social network accounts topost information slandering and defaming the government and the Party.
In 2016, Hoa arranged thescene to make video clips and take photos on the maritime environmental incidentand floods in Ha Tinh and posted them on the social media via network accounts toincite locals to gather to protest the government.
Particularly, inOctober 2016, he and some extremists stimulated people to protest at the maingate of the Formosa company. He recorded and ran a protest video clip online onthe social media, calling on locals in the region to destroy the property ofFormosa and caused social disorder in the locality.
Hoa then moved to HoChi Minh City to work and continued using the social network to spreaddocuments that contained reactionary information against the government, causingworry in the community.
He also sent and sharedphotos, video clips, reports and articles on “hot” issues in Ha Tinh and othersneighbouring provinces of Nghe An and Quang Binh to other reactionary individualsand organisations.
On April 6, 2017, thepolice of Ha Tinh issued a decision to start legal proceedings against Hoa anddetained him for three months.
At the court, Hoa confessedhis guilty and his wish to redeem his faults.-VNA
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