Heavy fines for acts of posting the information that infringes upon the right to freedom of belief or religion in Vietnam

Heavy fines for acts of posting the information that infringes upon the right to freedom of belief or religion in Vietnam (Illustrative Image)

Article 8 of Decree 119/2020/ND-CP stipulates that a fine from VND 30,000,000 to VND 50,000,000 for the action below:

+ Describing excessive details about the criminal acts or creepy accidents in news, articles and photos;

+ Convicting the crime without a court’s legally effective judgment;

+ Posting the information about mystical stories that cause confusion in society, adversely affecting social order and safety and public health;

+ Posting the information about relatives, relationships of individuals in the case or negative matters when there is no evidence to prove that relatives and relationships are related to the case or negative matters or no conclusion of competent regulatory agencies;

+ Introducing, promoting or placing the link on a website with contents in violation of law;

+ Failure to properly implement the principles and purposes of the press license or the license for producing domestic channels that causes misdemeanor impact.

A fine from VND 50,000,000 to VND 70,000,000 for the action below:

+ Posting false information that causes serious consequence;

+ Posting the information that is biased to distorts or offend the honor, prestige of the corporate or the honor and dignity of the individual;

+ Posting the information with excessive details about obscenity or debauchery act;

+ Failure to properly implement the principles and purposes of the press license or the license for producing domestic channels that causes serious impact.

 A fine from VND 70,000,000 to VND 100,000,000 for the action below:

+ Posting false information that causes extremely serious consequence;

+ Posting the new, article or photo inciting violence.

A fine from VND 100,000,000 to 150,000,000 shall be imposed for posting, broadcasting, introducing or promoting the works, documents or contents that are suspended from release, revoked, confiscated, banned from circulation or destroyed.

 A fine from VND 150,000,000 to VND 200,000,000 for the action below:

+ Posting the information that is not suitable to the interests of the country and the people;

+ Posting the information that is distorted, fabricated or causing confusion among people;

+ Posting the information with contents that affects the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam;

+ Posting the information that distorts history, denies revolutionary achievements, or offends the nation, national heroes;

+ Posting the information that affects the great national unity bloc;

+ Posting the information that infringes upon the right to freedom of belief or religion;

+ Posting the classified information but not to the level where criminal prosecution are needed.

More details can be found in Decree 119/2020/ND-CP, which comes into force in Vietnam from December 1, 2020.

Le Vy

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