Phạm Chí Dũng (born 1966) is a Vietnamese journalist, political activist, dissident and Doctor of Economics. He is the founder of the Independent Journalists Association of Vietnam and has been a member of the Ho Chi Minh City Writers' Association since 1986. In 2019, he was arrested [1] and convicted to 15 years imprisonment for "making, storing, and spreading information, documents, and items for the purpose of opposing the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam" in 2021. [2] [3] [4] [5] He was sentenced with two others and described as the mastermind. [3]
Pham Chi Dung was a member of the Communist Party of Vietnam before resigning in December 2013 and served as an officer at the Internal Security Department of Ho Chi Minh City until July 2012. [5] [2] [6]
In the course of his activities, Dung has used different pseudonyms. [2]