Securities agencies have so far arrested, summoned and called in 27 people, five of whom have been prosecuted and put into temporary detention, including Tran Huynh Duy Thuc, Le Cong Dinh, Le Thang Long, Nguyen Tien Trung and Tran Anh Kim, for acts against the Vietnamese State. 

The General Security Department on May 17, 2009, identified Tran Huynh Duy Thuc, born in 1966, General Director of the One Connection Internet Company (OCI), as the owner of the blog named “Tran Dong Chan” and several other blogs containing anti-State content. 

On May 24, the Investigation Security Agency promptly arrested Thuc while he was using the internet to link up with reactionary elements. 

Based on Thuc’s statement and seized documents, the agency arrested Le Thang Long, General Director of the Innotech Company on June 4, and Le Cong Dinh, Director of the Le Cong Dinh company, on June 13. 

The agency then arrested Nguyen Tien Trung and Tran Anh Kim on July 7, and on July 16 arrested and expelled Vo Kevin Huan, who was sent to Vietnam by Nguyen Sy Binh, head of an US-based exiled Vietnamese reactionary organisation called the “People’s Action Party”. 

On searching Thuc’s home, the investigation agency seized 169 articles and letters pages on his e-mail, blog and text-chat. 

Thuc confessed his acts against the State through 53 writings, including 14 criticising the Government’s operation and economic policies, 21 distorting the Party’s leadership, and 10 others splitting the internal unity between the Party’s elite. 

The results of the investigation, and Thuc’s affidavits and statements, showed that Thuc himself was the instigator of a scheme to set up the “Chan research group” in late 2005 with the aim of subverting the regime. He also distortioned of the Government’s policies and criticised the Prime Minister through blogs named “Tran Dong Chan”, “We Need Change” and “Psonkhanh”

For his part, Le Cong Dinh admitted that he was encouraged by Nguyen Tien Trung to join an exiled reactionary organisation called the “Vietnam Democratic Party” in early 2008 and took part in its “standing committee” as from May 2009. 

Dinh was appointed by Nguyen Sy Binh as General Secretary in June 2009, but his position was not made public when he was arrested. 

In March 2009, Le Cong Dinh, Nguyen Sy Binh and Tran Huynh Duy Thuc in Phuket, Thailand, agreed upon seizing the opportunity to change the political regime, which they called “time to raise the flag” in 2010-2011. 
Dinh wrote, collected and sent by e-mail 60 documents comprised of 413 pages, including 33 he himself wrote criticising the regime. 

He collected 27 articles that criticised the Party and State’s religious and education policies and the judiciary and called for the constitution to be replaced. These articles, sent to Dinh by exiled reactionary individuals and organisations, included a book titled “From Dictatorship to Democracy” translated by the exile reactionary group, the “Revolutionary Party for the Reform of Vietnam” or “Viet Tan” for short. This analysed non-violent struggles to subvert political regimes in Asia and Europe. 

Moreover, Dinh kept dozens of books written by dissidents and political opportunists that protested against and distorted the actions of President Ho Chi Minh. 

The police also seized a 112-page “New Constitution” from Dinh.