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  • | VietnamNet, dtinews | May 04, 2016 02:46 PM
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Police in the central provinces of Ha Tinh and Quang Binh have arrested two men for conducting anti-state propaganda and inciting public demonstrations over mass fish deaths in the central coast waters.

 

Truong Minh Tam at the police station

The men are Truong Minh Tam, 36, from Hanoi’s Dong Anh District and Chu Manh Son, 27, in Nghe An Province’s Yen Thanh District.

On April 26, Tam came to the area near Taiwanese-invested Formosa Steel Plant in Ha Tinh’s Ky Anh District blamed for untreated toxic discharge, causing the mass deaths of fish in the four central provinces of Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Thua Thien-Hue to collect news on the demonstrations there.

On April 30, Son and some other people used their mobile phones to take photos of the public gatherings on National Highway 1A in Quang Binh Province. While, they were caught by police while trying to publish the photos online.

At the police station, Tam admitted that he had been paid USD400 per month by ‘an anti-state organisation located in the US’ for gathering sensitive political information to serve an anti-state campaign. He interviewed some people who opposed the government.


 

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