Birth date: 1943
Activity: Blogger
Date of arrest: ASeptember 2008
Sentence: Sentenced to 3 years, 6 months followed by 3 years house arrest on October 9, 2009
Charge: Propaganda against the socialist state (Article 88)
Current location: K1 Prison Camp, Ha Nam Province
A former member of the Vietnamese Communist Party, Nguyen Manh Son became a dissident in the late 1980s. From 1995 to 2008, he wrote 22 articles and poems calling for political pluralism and the abolition of Article 4 of the Constitution, which gives monopoly power to the VCP. In September 2008, he participated in the hanging of a banner in Hai Phong calling for the defense of territorial integrity and a multiparty system for Vietnam.