Archive · 18 Nov 2025
Vietnam Prosecutes Journalist for Anti-State Activities
Vietnam is trying to put a journalist in jail because he wrote news stories that the government didn't like.
The journalist says it's not true and that the government is just trying to scare him.
This is happening before a big meeting of the country's leaders.
Vietnam's public security ministry is prosecuting journalist Le Trung Khoa for 'opposing the state'
Khoa is the editor-in-chief of Thoibao.de, a news site critical of Vietnam's leaders
The prosecution comes ahead of the Communist Party's five-year congress in January
Khoa denies the charges, calling them a 'government farce'
He holds both Vietnamese and German passports
- Who
- Le Trung Khoa, a journalist and editor
- What
- is being prosecuted for anti-state activities
- When
- in the run-up to the Communist Party's five-year congress in January
- Where
- in Vietnam
- Why
- for writing critical reports about the country's leaders
Vietnamese Government
Le Trung Khoa
Charges
Vietnamese Government
Khoa is guilty of anti-state activities
Le Trung Khoa
Khoa denies the charges, calling them a 'government farce'
- Age
- 54
- Occupation
- Journalist and Editor-in-Chief of Thoibao.de
- Nationality
- Vietnamese and German
- Charge
- Making, storing, spreading information, materials, items for the purpose of opposing the state
- Event
- Communist Party's five-year congress