VGP - Cù Huy Hà Vũ, a 53-year-old Hanoian, on December 17 was prosecuted on charges of disseminating information against the State of the Socialist Republic of Việt Nam as prescribed in Point C, Clause 1, Article 88 of the Penal Code.
According to Indictment 18/CT-VKS-P2 of the Hà Nội People’s Procuracy, in October 2010, the Hà Nội Municipal Department for Information and Communication sent an official dispatch to the municipal police asking them to illuminate a case relating to a number of interviews of Cù Huy Hà Vũ. These interviews, which were posted on the Internet, had contained information against the State, calling for abolishing Article 4 of the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Việt Nam and distorting the truth about the Vietnamese people’s resistance war. Investigators found that between 2009 and October, 2010, Cù Huy Hà Vũ posted a large number of articles and interviews with contents against the State of the Socialist Republic of Việt Nam on the Internet. These articles and interviews maligned Party and State guidelines and policies, defamed the administration and State institutions, and blackened the Vietnamese people’s resistance war, according to investigators. The procedural agencies took Cù Huy Hà Vũ’s violations seriously and held him responsible for these acts./.