Vu Duc Trung

Falun Gong practitioner, CEO of a high-tech company

Age: 31 years old

Activity: Falun Gong practitioner, CEO of a high-tech company

Date of arrest: June 11, 2010

Sentence: Sentenced to 3 years imprisonment on November 10, 2011

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

Current location: Unknown


Vu Duc Trung was CEO of a high-tech company in Hanoi until his arrest. From a farm outside of Hanoi, Vu Duc Trung (and his brother-in-law Le Van Thanh) had broadcast a short-wave news program called Sound of Hope documenting human rights abuses in China. Both were arrested even though Falun Gong is not explicitly banned in Vietnam.