Nguyen Phong

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Birth date: 1974

Activity: Democracy activist

Date of arrest: February 2007

Sentence: Sentenced to 6 years imprisonment followed by 3 years house arrest on March 30, 2007

Charge: Propaganda against the socialist state (Article 88)

Current location: K3 Prison Camp, Thanh Hoa Province


Nguyen Phong is a co-founder and first chairman of the Vietnam Progression Party. He authored two articles to the international community calling for more freedom in Vietnam and denouncing “actions by the Communist Party of Vietnam that are unconstitutional and contrary to the spirit of the International Declaration of Human rights.”

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