Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

HANOI - In one of Vietnam's largest subversion trials for years, 22 members of a little-known "reactionary" group appeared in court Monday charged with trying to overthrow the communist government, a clerk said.

HANOI — Three Vietnamese citizen journalists who have criticized the government in online postings were put on trial on Monday for spreading anti-government propaganda and could face up to 20 years in prison, one of their lawyers said.

HAIPHONG — Former top executives at a Vietnamese shipbuilder whose huge debts shook investor confidence in the communist nation went on trial on Tuesday for defying state regulations.

HANOI — A court in southern Vietnam has sentenced five people to death for heroin trafficking.

Hanoi - An appeals court in Hanoi on Tuesday evening upheld a seven-year sentence handed down to a prominent lawyer in April.

Nine people went on trial for corruption in Vietnam on Monday, officials said, including a former transport ministry boss already jailed in connection with a scandal that shook the Communist regime.

The defense team of a prominent Vietnamese dissident lawyer sentenced this week to prison has filed a complaint alleging the judge in his trial broke the law by obstructing their rights to hear all the evidence.

BANGKOK — A prominent Vietnamese legal scholar and human rights campaigner who has called for multiparty democracy was due in court on Monday in Hanoi, facing up to 12 years in prison in a case that has mobilized unusually broad public support.

Hanoi - The trial of one of Vietnam's most famous legal rights activists has been delayed until further notice, an official said Tuesday.

HANOI — A Vietnamese man on trial for corruption involving a Japanese-funded road project he managed could face the death penalty if found guilty in a high-profile case that started Friday, a court official said.

A Vietnamese writer and democracy activist has been jailed for three and a half years for attacking two men during a parking dispute in Hanoi.

HANOI - Vietnam on Monday jailed a former high-ranking official for five years over embezzlement linked to a multi-million-dollar IT project, a court official said

Vietnam's jailing of four dissidents for trying to topple the communist regime came under fire Thursday Jan 21 from the United States and European Union, while activists said the case made a mockery of justice.

HANOI - An elementary school teacher in central Vietnam has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of raping five of his students, a court official said on Wednesday.

BANGKOK — Intensifying a crackdown on dissent in advance of a Communist Party Congress, Vietnam has charged a prominent American-educated human rights lawyer and at least two associates with the capital crime of subversion, the official press reported on Wednesday.