Nguyen Danh Dung

Current Status: Pre-trial detention

Other Names: Nguyễn Danh Dũng

Date of Birth: 1987

Gender: M

Religion:

Ethnicity: Kinh

Occupation: Engineer

Latest Prison: Thanh Hoa detention center

Areas of Activism:

Press

Known Affiliations:

Arrest History

Arrest December 16, 2016

Trial Pending

Sentence

Charges

Art. 258

Expected Release

Actual Release

Details

Immediate Concerns

December 2017:

December 16 marked one year since blogger Nguyen Danh Dung was arrested. Twenty-nine years old at the time, Dung was arrested under Article 258 (“abusing democratic freedoms”) for posting videos critical of the government on YouTube and Facebook.

Details of Imprisonment

Nguyen Danh Dung was arrested on December 16, 2016, in Thanh Hoa province for posting alleged anti-state content on Facebook and YouTube.

Resources

Another blogger arrested as repression intensifies, Vietnam Right Now, December 19, 2016

Vietnam Arrests Activist Making Online Videos to Defame State Leaders, Defend the Defenders, December 18, 2016

Vietnam: New Wave of Arrests of Critics, Human Rights Watch, January 27, 2017

Prisoners of Conscience in Viet Nam, Amnesty International, April 4, 2018

Profile last updated: 2018-05-10 13:16:39