Cu Huy Ha Vu the 53 year old Vietnamese legal scholar, prominent government critic and human rights campaigner having been arrested and held in custody on charges of plotting to overthrow the communist government of Vietnam through propaganda against the state, has now been imprisoned for 7 years for spreading anti-state propaganda. Vu had mobilized broad support from the public and online supporters after posting critical articles on the internet. Vu currently has a legal suit against the Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung for his signing of a decree prohibiting class action lawsuits, and had previous unsuccessfully sued the Prime Minister on issues of national security, cultural heritage and environment damage resulting from a controversial Chinese build bauxite mining project. Inspired by Seth Mydans ow.ly/4ylF3 image source gstatic ow.ly/4ylCI Distributing propaganda against the State (April 12 2011)

Cu Huy Ha Vu the 53 year old Vietnamese legal scholar, prominent government critic and human rights campaigner having been arrested and held in custody on charges of plotting to overthrow the communist government of Vietnam through propaganda against the state, has now been imprisoned for 7 years for spreading anti-state propaganda. Vu had mobilized broad support from the public and online supporters after posting critical articles on the internet. Vu currently has a legal suit against the Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung for his signing of a decree prohibiting class action lawsuits, and had previous unsuccessfully sued the Prime Minister on issues of national security, cultural heritage and environment damage resulting from a controversial Chinese build bauxite mining project.

 

Inspired by Seth Mydans ow.ly/4ylF3 image source gstatic ow.ly/4ylCI