Phạm Chí Dũng Explained

Phạm Chí Dũng (born 1966) is a Vietnamese journalist, political activist, dissident and Doctor of Economics. He is the founder of the Independent Journalists Association of Vietnam and has been a member of the Ho Chi Minh City Writers' Association since 1986. In 2019, he was arrested^[1] and convicted to 15 years imprisonment for "making, storing, and spreading information, documents, and items for the purpose of opposing the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam" in 2021.^{[2] [3] [4] [5]} He was sentenced with two others and described as the mastermind.

Pham Chi Dung was a member of the Communist Party of Vietnam before resigning in December 2013 and served as an officer at the Internal Security Department of Ho Chi Minh City until July 2012.^[6]

In the course of his activities, Dung has used different pseudonyms.

Notes and References

1. Web site: VnExpress . Saigon man arrested for anti-government propaganda - VnExpress International . 2022-03-21 . VnExpress International – Latest news, business, travel and analysis from Vietnam . en.
2. Web site: Man sentenced to jail for 15 years for anti-State propaganda . 2022-03-21 . vietnamnews.vn . en.
3. Web site: VietnamPlus . 2021-01-05 . Imprisonment sentences given to three men for anti-State propaganda Society Vietnam+ (VietnamPlus) . 2022-03-21 . VietnamPlus . en.
4. Web site: Vietnam Jails Blogger and Critic Pham Chi Dung for 15 Years . 2022-03-21 . VOA . en.
5. Web site: As National Congress Approaches, Vietnam Begins Trial of Dissident Journalists . 2022-03-21 . thediplomat.com . en-US.
6. News: VN xử tù các ông Phạm Chí Dũng, Nguyễn Tường Thụy, Lê Hữu Minh Tuấn . vi . BBC News Tiếng Việt . 2022-03-21.