Phạm Minh Hoàng

Phạm Minh Hoàng (born 1955) is a French-Vietnamese blogger and lecturer in applied mathematics at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, who was arrested in Vietnam for his political writing and activism on August 13, 2010. Phạm Minh Hoàng, who writes with the pen name Phan Kien Quoc, was convicted on August 10, 2011 for writing “33 articles that distort the policies and guidelines of the Party and the State.” He was sentenced to three years in jail and three years of probation under Article 79, “subversion of administration”—one of many penal codes defined vaguely and used to detain and arrest political activists but served only 17 months and spend another three years under house arrest. Phạm Minh Hoàng was based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam where he used to lecture at the university and offered free classes for Vietnamese youth on leadership skills. In June 2017, he published a call for help on his Facebook page upon receiving the news that he is likely to lose his Vietnamese citizenship and be deported to France. Hoang was detained by local authorities on June 23 before being forcibly exiled to France the following day. Provided by Wikipedia