Reuters
Election workers in Vietnam’s capital Hanoi have put a sight-impaired woman on report for failing to vote in this weekend’s election for members of the country’s National Assembly and local People’s Councils, with all candidates pre-approved by the country’s ruling Communist Party.
Do Le Na, wife of independent candidate Le Trong Hung who was arrested March 27 when he put himself forward for election, was told by a visiting team on Sunday evening that she would either have to go to the polls to vote or be put “on report,” though voting is not compulsory in the one-party communist state.
congluan.vn
A court in Vietnam sentenced a journalist to eight years Friday for writing anti-state stories and sharing them on social media, her lawyer told RFA.
The People’s Court in the south-central coastal province of Phu Yen convicted Tran Thi Tuyet Dieu of violating article 117 of the Vietnamese penal code for “creating, storing and disseminating information and materials against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.”
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The trial lasted three hours, which is quite fast. The prosecution carried a sentence range of five to 12 years and I think the 8-years is pretty harsh,” Nguyen Kha Thanh, Dieu’s lawyer told RFA’s Vietnamese Service.
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