Suspended for Facebook post

Hanoi, Vietnam — Suspended for a Facebook post? That’s precisely what happened to one eighth-grade student in Vietnam, who was suspended from school for one year after she posted a parody of a speech by revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh on the social media site.



In the same week that an activist in Kuwait was imprisoned for insulting his nation’s leader on Twitter, Thanh Nien News reports how 14-year-old Nguyen Thanh Vy was suspended from her school in Hanoi for a Facebook post. School principal Nguyen Tan Si said the post, made in December, “had criticized the first term exam and insulted the teachers.”