Arrest of a subject in Nghe An for distributing documents and propagandizing against the State

On November 6, the Investigation Security Department, Nghe An Provincial Police, executed an arrest warrant to temporarily detain Nguyen Van Lam (born in 1970), residing in Nam Dan district, residing in Vinh Yen block, Dong Vinh ward (Vinh city) for 4 months to investigate the act of "Making, storing, disseminating or propagating information and documents for the purpose ofanti-stateSocialist Republic of Vietnam".

Subject Nguyen Van Lam. Photo: An Khanh

Also on November 6, the Investigation Security Agency (Nghe An Police) issued a decision to prosecute the case and prosecute Nguyen Van Lam for the above violations.

Previously, on September 21, 2020, Nghe An Provincial Police received a crime report from the Provincial Department of Information and Communications, requesting verification and investigation to clarify the subject using Facebook "Lam Thoi" to post and share many videos, images, and articles with illegal content.
Based on collected documents and evidence, the Security Investigation Agency determined that from 2017 to present, Lam regularly used the FB account "Lam Thoi" with 5,000 friends to share and post many articles, images, and videos with propaganda content.distort,defame the Party, the government and many State agencies; at the same time incite people of all walks of life to oppose the Party and the State.

Nghe An police have extracted 35 documents with signs of violating the law. Among them, there are 3 live videos, 18 articles directly made by the subject and posted on Facebook, and 13 articles shared by the subject from reactionary websites.

One of the false and fabricated content about the Communist Party of Vietnam posted by Nguyen Van Lam on his personal Facebook.

Previously, with similar actions and content of Nguyen Van Lam, on December 4, 2019, Vinh City Police summoned the subject for questioning and education, the subject admitted to using Facebook "Lam Thoi" to post and share bad content on social networks. After working with the police, subject Lam pledged not to violate.

However, Nguyen Van Lam continued to use social networks to post and share content against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, especially during the 19th Congress of the Nghe An Provincial Party Committee and activities in preparation for the 13th Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

Before being arrested, Nguyen Van Lam was a security guard for a company in Vinh city.
At the Security Investigation Agency, Nguyen Van Lam admitted that the content on Facebook "Lam Thoi" was his, and also admitted the violations.
Currently, the Security Investigation Agency is continuing to investigate and resolve the case.

An Khanh