Huỳnh Ngọc Tuấn

Huỳnh Ngọc Tuấn (born 1963) is a Vietnamese independent journalist known for his posts on Facebook. Having served a ten-year prison sentence between 1992 and 2002 for criticising the Vietnamese government, in 2025 he was arrested and charged for propaganda against the state.

Biography Tuấn was an independent journalist and writer who regularly wrote articles and commentaries on Vietnamese politics, human rights, and international affairs; as of the 2010s, he primarily posted on social media platforms like Facebook. In 2015, he stated that he had "given up on anti-communism", later writing in 2025 that he had "gave up the struggle for democracy" and that he was now "just a political analyst".

In 1992, Tuấn was sentenced to ten years in prison for "sending and distributing abroad a number of works that criticised the government" by the People's Court of Quảng Nam Province in Da Nang. In 2011, Tuấn was fined 100 million VND by the People's Committee in Quảng Nam province for "transmitting and posting anti-state information".

On 7 October 2025, Tuấn was arrested at his home in Buôn Hồ, Đắk Lắk province by officers from the provincial police. He was subsequently charged under article 117 of the Vietnamese penal code of "propagandising against the state".