Le Van Thanh

Falun Gong practitioner

Age: 36 years old

Activity: Falun Gong practitioner

Date of arrest: June 11, 2010

Sentence: Sentenced to 2 years imprisonment on November 10, 2011

Charge: Illegally using information in computer networks (Article 226)

Current location: Unknown


From a farm outside of Hanoi, Le Van Thanh (and his brother-in-law Vu Duc Trung) operated a short-wave radio broadcast called Sound of Hope revealing human rights abuses in China. He was arrested even though Falun Gong is not explicitly banned in Vietnam.