Prisoner of the century Huynh Van Nen sent a complaint to the People's Police Newspaper

The petition reads: “After being released from prison, I learned that the People's Police Newspaper published the articles "Was Huynh Van Nen wrongly arrested?" in the November 3, 2000 issue and issues 93 and 94 on Tuesday, August 3, 2004 and Thursday, August 5, 2004, convicting me before the second trial of the Vuon Dieu case was brought to trial on August 6, 2004. In it, they also arbitrarily took my photo to post my personal photo in prison and my mother-in-law while the matter had not yet been clarified. This was completely wrong in both sentiment and nature, convicting me before the court brought me to trial.”

According to Mr. Nen, in the above mentioned articles it was written: "…With his inherently cunning and hooligan nature, Huynh Van Nen tried to deny his crime by crudely smearing a number of investigators who directly participated in investigating him in the two above mentioned cases."

One of the articles that Mr. Huynh Van Nen provided as evidence

The petition also listed the damage caused by the article: “Emotionally, after reading the above articles, for me, it was a painful re-trampling, recalling memories that I and my family of three generations had to endure….”

According to Mr. Nen, at the time these articles were published, the people who suffered the most severe effects were his extended family, who lived outside the prison bars but were also discriminated against by public opinion and neighbors.

“At that time, my wife not only had to be away from her husband, but also had to take on the role of breadwinner in the family, shouldering the responsibility of being a father to raise the children, and the duties of being a child to both sides of the family… During the most difficult time of her life, my wife also had to endure the sarcasm and contempt of the whole society because she was the wife of a serious criminal” - Mr. Nen wrote in the petition.

Mr. Huynh Van Nen requested that the author of these articles and the Editor-in-Chief who approved this article appear, officially make corrections, publicly apologize, and compensate him and his family for mental damages.

The legal basis that the petition states is based on Article 9 of the Press Law, amended and supplemented in 1999, and Clause 3, Article 4 of Decree 51/2002/ND-CP of the Government dated April 26, 2002, detailing the implementation of the Press Law...

In the petition, Mr. Nen also stated that if within the time limit the People's Police newspaper does not respond, Mr. Nen will file a lawsuit in court for a public trial.

According to Infonet