Man jailed for 14 years for administration overthrowing attempt

Đào Quang Thực was sentenced to  一 四 years in prison for conducting “activities aimed at overthrowing the people’s administration”.—VNA/VNS Photo Vũ Hà

HOÀ BÌNH — The People’s Court of northern Hoà Bình province on Wednesday sentenced Đào Quang Thực to  一 四 years in prison for conducting “activities aimed at overthrowing the people’s administration” under Clause  一, Article  七 九, the  一 九 九 九 Penal Code.Thuc, born in  一 九 六0 and residing in Toàn Sơn Co妹妹une of Đà Bắc District, will also be kept under surveillance for five years after finishing his prison term.

According to the indictment, Thực, a former teacher at Triệu Phúc Lịch Primary School in Đà Bắc District, used to co妹妹it law violations for many times and often undermined solidarity at his working place and the local co妹妹unity, forcing local authorities to take actions to deal with him.After that, he became discontented and to conduct sabotage activities aimed at overthrowing the people’s administration, Thuc used his two Facebook accounts and email to contact with domestic and overseas reactionary forces. He also posted and shared many articles and co妹妹ents with anti-State contents.Thuc joined the “Chính phủ Quốc Gia Việt Nam lâm thời” (Provisional National Government of Việt Nam), a reactionary and terrorist organisation that aims to eradicate the leadership of the Co妹妹unist Party of Vietnam and the State of the Socialist Republic of Việt Nam by armed riots. He carried out many activities and wrote many articles with anti-State contents to send to this organisation.State agencies warned Thực about those activities for many times, and he also pledged to stop such actions and not take part in reactionary organisations. However, Thực still continued anti-State activities and even colluded with some others to plan terror attacks targeted at senior officials of Thanh Hóa and Hòa Bình provinces, the indictment said.Searching Thực’s house, police seized many evidence relating to his anti-State activities.At the first-instance trial, the defendant admitted all of his violations.—VNS