Hoang Thuy Linh Sex Tape

- Filmed with a cell phone camera
- Man in the video was identified as 20-year-old Vu Hoang Viet
- Both participants appear aware of being recorded
- 5-minute and 16-minute versions of the video were uploaded
- Videos were quickly removed from YouTube, but continued to circulate on other sites
- June 9, 2008: Four students were charged for posting the sex tape onlineThe Earth Times: Vietnamese students sentenced over internet sex clip (June 9, 2008)
- Nguyen Huu Tai was given a 30 month probation sentenceThe Earth Times: Vietnamese students sentenced over internet sex clip (June 9, 2008)
- Vo Thanh Hiep and Vu Thi Thuy Linh were sentenced to 24 months probationThe Earth Times: Vietnamese students sentenced over internet sex clip (June 9, 2008)
- Nguyen Thu Linh was sentenced to 20 months probationThe Earth Times: Vietnamese students sentenced over internet sex clip (June 9, 2008)

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A sex tape featuring 19-year-old Vietnamese actress Hoang Thuy Linh circulated around the Internet in October of 2007 resulting in the cancellation of the popular show Vang Anh's Diaries, in which Thuy Linh played a high school girl with traditional values facing typical youth issues.Inquirer.net: Vietnam state TV cancels popular soap (October 15, 2007) The tape caused controversy in the sexually conservative communist country, where women are expected to remain chaste until marriage and remain unquestionably faithful to their husband.Herald Tribune: Scandal over celebrity sex tape reveals generational divide in Vietnam (October 25, 2007)

Four people in their twenties, who reportedly copied the video from a computer belonging to Thuy Linh's partner, were arrested for "dispersing illicit material of sexual content." BBC News: Arrests in Vietnam sex tape case(October 26, 2007)
Convictions
On June 9, 2008, four students were charged in a Hanoi, Vietnam court for the online posting of a sex tape depicting actress Hoang Thuy Linh and boyfriend Vu Hoang Viet having sex.AFP: Vietnam punishes students for posting TV star's sex clip online (June 9, 2008)

Student Nguyen Huu Tai was given a 30 month probation sentence and students Vo Thanh Hiep and Vu Thi Thuy Linh were sentenced to 24 months. Student Nguyen Thu Linh was given the lightest sentence of the four involved with 20 months of probation.The Earth Times: Vietnamese students sentenced over internet sex clip (June 9, 2008)