Media Legal Defense Network » Subversion http://jmsc.asia/mediadefense Lawyers defending freedom of expression in South East Asia Thu, 06 May 2010 05:57:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Vietnam convicts Dinh, activists of subversion http://jmsc.asia/mediadefense/2010/01/vietnam-convicts-democracy-activists-of-subversion/ http://jmsc.asia/mediadefense/2010/01/vietnam-convicts-democracy-activists-of-subversion/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:32:17 +0000 Administrator http://jmsc.asia/mediadefense/?p=186 HO CHI MINH CITY, 21 January 2010 (AP) — Vietnam has convicted four democracy activists of trying to overthrow the communist government and sentenced them to up to 16 years in prison for promoting multiparty democracy.

U.S.-trained human rights attorney Le Cong Dinh, the most well known of the four defendants, received a relatively light five-year sentence after judges at the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court deliberated for just a half-hour. The court apparently…

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