FILE PHOTO: A poster promoting Vietnam's communist party is seen on a street in Hanoi, Vietnam January 23, 2019. REUTERS/Kham
HANOI (Reuters) - A Vietnamese academic has been expelled from the ruling Communist Party for posting comments on Facebook deemed to be critical of the party, the government said on Friday.
Tran Duc Anh Son, deputy head of the Danang Institute for Socio-Economic Development, was accused of "writing Facebook posts that were untrue and went against the party's views and state policies and laws," the government said in a statement.
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