Arrested in Vietnam a man accused of slandering and trying to “overthrow the state” with his posts on Facebook

March 17 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The security forces of Vietnam have arrested this Friday a man accused of slandering and trying to “overthrow the State” for a series of publications made through the social network Facebook with which, according to the Government, he sought to bring down the Party country communist.

The Ministry of Security has indicated in a statement that the detainee, who has been identified as Phan Thi Thanh Nha, 39, had been sharing content that “defamed the main leaders of the party.”

Thus, he has been accused of making at least 25 publications since 2018 in which he shared articles and videos with the aim of “distorting and defaming the leaders of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the State”, as stated in the text.

Nha has also been accused of joining members of the Vietnamese Provisional National Government, a group in the United States that is listed as a “terrorist group” by the Vietnamese government.

Several people have been jailed in Vietnam accused of recruiting citizens to be part of this group, which focuses its activities in the state of California.