Tuesday, May 11, 2010
11 May, 2010 HANOI — A Vietnamese court on Tuesday began hearing the appeal of a high-profile group of dissidents jailed for trying to overthrow the communist regime, a court official said. Foreign diplomats and journalists were denied access to the hearing in southern Ho Chi Minh City. The case, originally tried in January, was [...]
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Monday, March 8, 2010
HANOI, Vietnam – A Vietnamese human rights lawyer has been released from prison after serving a three-year sentence for spreading propaganda against the state. Le Thi Cong Nhan was released Saturday from Prison Number 5 in northern Thanh Hoa province and was escorted by police to her home in Hanoi, said prison chief Luong Van [...]
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
by Greg Rushford posted on January 25, 2010 Until the security police knocked on their doors last year, Le Cong Dinh, Le Thang Long, and Tran Huynh Duy Thuc represented the best-and-brightest of Vietnam’s emerging new professional generation. Dinh, 41, an American-educated lawyer, had moved in elite Vietnamese corporate and legal circles since his early [...]
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Friday, January 22, 2010
21.01.2010 Từ hai ngày qua, hai diễn đàn X-Cafevn và Dân Luận đã và đang bị tấn công từ chối dịch vu (DDoS). Không có gì ngạc nhiên khi việc tấn công này trùng vào thời điểm chính quyền Việt Nam xét xử bốn nhà bất đồng chính kiến: Lê Công Định, Nguyễn Tiến Trung, [...]
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
by Ian Timberlake Ian Timberlake – Thu Jan 21 HANOI (AFP) – Vietnam Thursday came under fire from the United States and activists after jailing a group of dissidents for up to 16 years for trying to overthrow the communist regime. “The accused had already been convicted in the pages of the newspapers before the [...]
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
Phiên tòa xét xử 4 nhà đấu tranh cho dân chủ tại Việt Nam (20/01/2010) gồm: LS Lê Công Định, TS Nguyễn Tiến Trung, Lê Thăng Long, Trần Hùynh Duy Thức
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
By BEN STOCKING, Associated Press Writer Ben Stocking, Associated Press Writer – Wed Jan 20, 7:39 am ET HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam – Vietnam convicted four democracy activists of trying to overthrow the communist government on Wednesday and sentenced them to up to 16 years in prison for promoting multiparty democracy. The most well known of the four [...]
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