A court in Vietnam's southern Dong Nai province has sentenced four provincial residents to 1.6-4.6 years imprisonment for "abusing democracy and freedom rights to infringe the interests of the state, and legitimate rights and interests of organizations and citizens," local newspaper Vietnam News reported Tuesday.
The provincial People's Court on Monday gave Doan Van Dien, born in 1954, four years and six months; Tran Thi Le Hong, born in 1959, three years; and Doan Huy Chuong, born in 1985, and Phung Quang Quyen, born in 1956, one year and six months each, in prison.
According to the verdict, Dien, Hong and Quyen since April 2005 have collected complaints of land use in Vietnam and sent them to Trinh Thi Ngoc Anh in the United States to change their contents before upgrading them onto a reactionary website in order to slander the Vietnamese state.
Dien even asked his son, Chuong, to role-play a worker to give a phone interview to Hoa Mai Club Radio (a reactionary website) and the Radio Free Asia to distort facts, saying the Vietnamese authorities repressed workers and arrested demonstrators.
Hong and Dien were also authors of a document falsely accusing the Vietnamese state of depriving land and home of citizens and repressing workers, which was then published on the Hoa Mai Club website.
In October 2006, Dien prepared and distributed leaflets against the state on the occasion of the 14th APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) Economic Leaders' Meeting in Hanoi capital.
Source: Xinhua
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