Hanoi (VNA) - Two women and a man have been arrested over the last two daysin two separate cases of making, storing, and spreading anti-State material,according to the police.
Hanoi policelaunched criminal proceedings on June 23 against Trinh Ba Phuong and Nguyen ThiTam, both from Duong Noi commune in Ha Dong district.
The35-year-old man and 48-year-old woman were accused of posting and disseminatingvideo clips and stories containing fabricated and distorted information againstthe Socialist Republic of Vietnam, pursuant to Article 117 of the 2015 PenalCode.
The case issubject to ongoing investigations.
In the south-centralprovince of Khanh Hoa, meanwhile, Nguyen Thi Cam Thuy, 44, was taken intocustody for, together with others, repeatedly defaming the State and Party via livestreamingon Facebook.
She has uploadedvideos in which she is seen burning the national and Party flags and cutting upphotos of late President Ho Chi Minh.
During asearch of her home in Tan Quy village, Cam Thanh Bac commune, in Cam Lamdistrict, police discovered a range of weapons, including machetes, scimitars, andknives, as well as four gas cylinders and 150 litres of petrol.
Police begancriminal proceedings against Thuy on June 17./.
