Arrest of subject posting defamatory news about Party and State leaders

The Ministry of Public Security has coordinated with Thanh Hoa Provincial Police to arrest a subject red-handed for managing and posting videos with reactionary content, distorting, fabricating, defaming, and discrediting Party and State leaders.

The subject was identified as Nguyen Danh Dung (29 years old), residing in Tao Xuyen ward, Thanh Hoa city.

Dung is the account owner and administrator of the Youtube channel “ThienAn TV”, which posted videos with titles distorting, defaming, and discrediting Party and State leaders and distributed them on the Internet.

At the time the Ministry of Public Security and Thanh Hoa Provincial Police raided and caught him red-handed on December 14, this subject was posting videos with reactionary content.

Subject Nguyen Danh Dung

Police seized evidence including 2 laptops, 2 mobile phones and many other related documents.

Through initial investigation, Nguyen Danh Dung admitted his wrongdoings.

Dung confessed that around October 2015, he directly created and managed the Youtube accounts ThienAn TV; Facebook accounts “ThienAn”, “quachthienan” and blog “tinhhinhdatnuocvietnam.blogspot.com” to post video clips distorting, fabricating, defaming, and discrediting Party and State leaders.

The subject's activities were to edit video clips with commentary that was an article collected by Dung from a reactionary website or to use video clips collected from social networking sites; then, re-edit the content by inserting the ThienAn TV logo, adding a representative image, adjusting the tone, changing the titles with content that distorted, fabricated, defamed, and discredited the leaders of the Party and State to attract attention and attract more viewers.

Initial investigation results determined that the subject posted more than 700 video clips, attracting millions of views.

On December 16, the Investigation Security Agency, Thanh Hoa Provincial Police Department issued a decision to initiate a criminal case, prosecute the accused and issue an arrest warrant and temporary detention for 3 months against Nguyen Danh Dung for the crime of "Abusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the State, the legitimate rights and interests of organizations and citizens" as prescribed in Article 258 of the Penal Code to expand the investigation and clarify the law violations of this subject.

Colonel Duong Van Tien

Colonel Duong Van Tien, Deputy Director, Head of the Investigation Security Agency, Thanh Hoa Provincial Police, said that during the process of solving the case, the police force focused highly, mobilized maximum forces and means, especially good experts to collect evidence and documents, and consolidate the wrongdoings of the subject because this type of crime must be caught red-handed to be handled.

“We advise people to be extremely vigilant with this information because this is information and images with bad content. At the same time, people need to actively denounce acts and subjects with such violations,” Colonel Tien emphasized.

According to Vietnamnet