Pham Ho (L) listens to a policeman reading the detention warrant (Photo: cand.com.vn)Phu Yen (VNA) - Police in the centralprovince of Phu Yen on August 22 announced the launch of legal proceedingsagainst and temporary detention of two local residents to investigate them forsubversive acts.
They include Pham Ho, a 71-year-old man in Hoa Vinh ward ofDong Hoa town, who is accused of “attempting to overthrow the people’sadministration” under Clause 2 of Article 109 in the 2015 Penal Code.
The other is Tran Thi Tuyet Dieu, a 32-year-old woman in HoaTan Tay commune of Tay Hoa district, who faces the charge of “making, storing,distributing and disseminating information, documents and items aimed atsabotaging the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam” under Clause 1 ofArticle 117 in the 2015 Penal Code.
Initial investigation found that Pham Ho opened a Facebookaccount to connect with some members of the so-called “Chinh phu quoc gia VietNam lam thoi” (Provisional National Government of Vietnam), a reactionaryorganisation led by Dao Minh Quan.
Ho wrote poems and articles praising this organisation andposted them on his personal Facebook page. He also called on others to supportthe organisation.
From late 2019 to March 2020, some members of thisorganisation sent Ho two mobile phones to keep contact and six copies of theso-called “Constitution of the Third Republic of Vietnam” so that he could readand take part in discussion of the organisation’s forums.
Searching his house, police seized a number of reactionarydocuments.
As for Tran Thi Tuyet Dieu, from late 2017 to May 2020, shereportedly used different accounts on social networks to post hundreds ofarticles, images and video clips praising and advocating anti-Party and Stateactivists; offending and smearing leaders; distorting the Party’s guidelines, policiesand the State’s laws and the Vietnamese revolution’s history; defaming thepeople’s administration and inciting activities aimed at overthrowing theadministration; and spreading false information about law enforcement agencies./.
They include Pham Ho, a 71-year-old man in Hoa Vinh ward ofDong Hoa town, who is accused of “attempting to overthrow the people’sadministration” under Clause 2 of Article 109 in the 2015 Penal Code.
The other is Tran Thi Tuyet Dieu, a 32-year-old woman in HoaTan Tay commune of Tay Hoa district, who faces the charge of “making, storing,distributing and disseminating information, documents and items aimed atsabotaging the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam” under Clause 1 ofArticle 117 in the 2015 Penal Code.
Initial investigation found that Pham Ho opened a Facebookaccount to connect with some members of the so-called “Chinh phu quoc gia VietNam lam thoi” (Provisional National Government of Vietnam), a reactionaryorganisation led by Dao Minh Quan.
Ho wrote poems and articles praising this organisation andposted them on his personal Facebook page. He also called on others to supportthe organisation.
From late 2019 to March 2020, some members of thisorganisation sent Ho two mobile phones to keep contact and six copies of theso-called “Constitution of the Third Republic of Vietnam” so that he could readand take part in discussion of the organisation’s forums.
Searching his house, police seized a number of reactionarydocuments.
As for Tran Thi Tuyet Dieu, from late 2017 to May 2020, shereportedly used different accounts on social networks to post hundreds ofarticles, images and video clips praising and advocating anti-Party and Stateactivists; offending and smearing leaders; distorting the Party’s guidelines, policiesand the State’s laws and the Vietnamese revolution’s history; defaming thepeople’s administration and inciting activities aimed at overthrowing theadministration; and spreading false information about law enforcement agencies./.
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