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.
