On June 22, 2022, a Vietnamese court in Binh Thuan Province tried Le Chi Thanh, a former police captain, and sentenced him to three years in prison for allegedly “abusing democratic freedoms to infringe on State and individuals’ legitimate rights and interests,” under Article 331 of Vietnam’s Penal Code. The verdict was declared at 3 p.m. on the same day, according to Thanh’s lawyer, Dang Dinh Manh.

In April 2021, Thanh was arrested for “resisting officers on official duty.” The incident happened when he argued and live-streamed a traffic police’s confiscated his car for driving in the wrong lane. Le Chi Thanh was later found guilty and received two years of imprisonment in January 2022.