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: JURIST - The Paper ChaseVietnam court sentences democracy activist to prison for propaganda
By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.
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[JURIST] A Vietnamese court sentenced writer and democracy activist Pham Thanh Nghien to a four-year prison term on Friday on charges of spreading anti-state propaganda. Foreign observers were not permitted to attend the trial, which took place in the city of Haiphong in the northern region of Vietnam and lasted less than a day. Nghien was sentenced under Vietnam's Penal Code Article 88, which provides for up to 20 years in prison for crimes including "propagating against" the government or "cir read more
Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on January 29, 2010 (boomark / email).
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