Hanoi hands down five-year imprisonment to anti-State Facebooker
The Hanoi People’s Court on July 20 opened the first-instance trial involving Tran Hoang Minh, 31, residing in Thanh Xuan district, Hanoi on charge of “taking advantage of the rights to freedom and democracy to infringe upon State interests, legitimate rights and interests of organisations and individuals” in accordance with Article 331 of the 2015 Penal Code.
Hanoi (VNA) - The Hanoi People’s Court on July 20 opened the first-instance trialinvolving Tran Hoang Minh, 31, residing in Thanh Xuan district, Hanoi on chargeof “taking advantage of the rights to freedom and democracy to infringe uponState interests, legitimate rights and interests of organisations andindividuals” in accordance with Article 331 of the 2015 Penal Code.
Accordingto the indictment of the Hanoi People's Procuracy, via the personal Facebook account named “Tran Hoang Minh” andFacebook group “Chủ nghĩa xã hội không có gương mặt con người”(Socialism without human face), Minh posted articlesblackening the Party and State, slandering and insulting leaders of the Hanoipolice.
The court said Minh’s behaviours directly violated the Stateadministrative management order, affecting the leadership, legitimate rights andinterests of the Communist Party of Vietnam, breaching the interests of theState of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, and harming political security,social order and safety.
At the court, he admitted the violations as s✤hown in the indictment and expressed remorse for his behaviors. Therefore, the board of judges agreed to red♋uce his sentence to five years behind bars./.
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Tran Hoang Minh at the court (Photo: anninhthudo) 
