Birth date: 1967
Activity: Businessman
Date of arrest: June 4, 2009
Sentence: Sentenced to 5 years imprisonment (later reduced to 3.5 years) followed by 3 years house arrest on January 20, 2010
Charge: Attempting to overthrow the government (Article 79)
Current location:B34 Prison Camp, Saigon
Le Thang Long is a telecommunications engineer and graduate of the Vietnamese Polytechnic University. He founded a mobile phone company called EIS Service Co. that was listed on the stock market in Saigon. In 2007, Le Thang Long filed an application to run as an independent candidate in the National Assembly election which was refused by the Fatherland Front, an offshoot of the Vietnamese Communist Party.
