On October 8, the People's Court of District 3, Ho Chi Minh City, convicted four citizens on charge of "disrupting public order" for their participation in the mass demonstration in mid-June this year. The court sentenced Nguyen Van Tuan, 30-year old man from Bac Giang province, to three years in prison, Truong Ngoc Hien, 21 from Thua Thien-Hue province, to two years, Nguyen Huynh Duc, 18 from Soc Trang province, and Bui Van Tien, 17 from Vinh Long province, to one year each in jail. Additionally, Tien was given two years of probation after completing his imprisonment. Tuan was ordered to pay a compensation of VND9.5 million ($410) for "causing property damage." Theindictment said they illegally conducted rally on streets in Tan Binh and Phu Nhuan districts and then to the city's center. They were accussed of demolishing some police's vehicles during the demonstration. On June 9-11, tens of thousands of Vietnamese in HCM City, Hanoi, Danang, Nha Trang, Dong Nai, Binh Thuan and Ninh Thuan rallied on streets to protest the plan of the National Assembly to approve two bills on Special Economic Zones and Cyber Security. The first is likely to favor Chinese investors to hire land for 99 years amid increasing concerns about Beijing's aggressiveness in the South China Sea while the second bill aims to silence online critics. In response, Vietnam's security forces violently suppressed demonstrations, arresting hundreds of protestors and charged many of them with "disrupting public order" under Article 318 of the 2015 Penal Code. So far, 65 protestors have been convicted, 56 of them were given prison sentences of between eight months and 4.5 years and eight of them were with probation of between five months and two years. In addition, Vietnamese American William Anh Nguyen was deported to the US after nearly two months of detention.