A well-known Vietnamese blogger and human rights advocate is set to face trial for “affronting the national flag or national emblem,” a rights group and her lawyer said on Friday, three months after she was briefly detained and had her computer, books and other items confiscated.
Huynh Thuc Vy, 33, a co-founder of the advocacy group Vietnamese Women for Human Rights, was taken away on Aug. 9 by police in Dak Lak province’s Buon Ho town in the country’s central highlands after refusing previous summons to come in to their offices for questioning, Vy’s husband Le Khanh Duy told RFA’s Vietnamese Service at that time.
On Friday, the rights group Defend the Defenders quoted Dak Lak police and prosecutors as saying she would be prosecuted for “Affronting the national flag or national emblem” under Article 276 of the country’s 1999 Penal Code.
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