Arrest of subject posting defamatory news about Party and State leaders

The Ministry of Public Security coordinated with Thanh Hoa Provincial Police to catch a subject red-handed managing and posting videos with reactionary, distorted, fabricated, defamatory, and discrediting content of 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 wrongdoing.

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 articles collected by Dung from reactionary websites or use video clips collected from social networking sites; then, re-edit the content by inserting the ThienAn TV logo, adding representative images, adjusting the tone, changing titles with distorted, fabricated, defamatory, and discrediting content of Party and State leaders to attract attention and many 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 prosecute the criminal case, prosecute the accused and issue an arrest warrant and 3-month detention order for 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 force and means, especially good experts to collect evidence and documents, to 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 alert to this information because it contains bad information and images. At the same time, people need to actively denounce acts and subjects that commit such violations,” Colonel Tien emphasized.

According to Vietnamnet