A trial of 29 people who include former police officers and judges accused of being involved in a massive heroin trafficking and corruption case began in northern Vietnam, a court official said Friday. Nguyen Van Hoa, an official at the People's Court in Thai Nguyen province, said the trial, which started Wednesday, was the largest drug-trafficking case ever seen in the province and was expected to last more than two weeks.
Tag - trial
lundi 15 mars 2010
29 on trial in Vietnam for drug trafficking and police corruption
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le lundi 15 mars 2010, 08:33 - News in english
vendredi 5 février 2010
Vietnam jails dissident writer over attack
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le vendredi 5 février 2010, 20:34 - News in english
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.
dimanche 31 janvier 2010
Vietnamese dissidents 'appeal jail terms'
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le dimanche 31 janvier 2010, 16:58 - News in english
HANOI – A group of Vietnamese dissidents jailed for up to 16 years for trying to overthrow the communist regime have appealed their sentences, local media reported on Saturday.
mercredi 27 janvier 2010
Former Vietnam official jailed five years for corruption
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le mercredi 27 janvier 2010, 08:39 - News in english
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
mardi 26 janvier 2010
Global lawyers' group says barred from Vietnam trial
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le mardi 26 janvier 2010, 08:52 - News in english
Observers from a global association of lawyers were barred last week from a controversial Vietnamese trial at which four dissidents were jailed, the group said Saturday.
vendredi 22 janvier 2010
Vietnam under fire over jailing of dissidents
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le vendredi 22 janvier 2010, 20:43 - News in english
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.
mardi 19 janvier 2010
Vietnam bans media from recording democracy activists' trial
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le mardi 19 janvier 2010, 08:41 - News in english
Hanoi - A Vietnamese court has banned the used of recording devices and computers by media covering the trial of four democracy activists scheduled to begin Wednesday.
jeudi 31 décembre 2009
Life for raping students
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le jeudi 31 décembre 2009, 09:20 - News in english
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.
mardi 29 décembre 2009
Vietnam sentences democracy activist to prison
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le mardi 29 décembre 2009, 10:06 - News in english
A Vietnamese court has sentenced pro-democracy activist Tran Anh Kim to five-and-a-half years in prison for subversion against the communist state.
jeudi 24 décembre 2009
Vietnam charges lawyer with capital crime
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le jeudi 24 décembre 2009, 08:32 - News in english
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.
samedi 17 octobre 2009
Vietnam rejects US call to release dissidents
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le samedi 17 octobre 2009, 08:42 - News in english
Hanoi - The Vietnamese government rejected a US call for it to 'immediately and unconditionally' release nine dissidents sentenced to prison last week for criticizing the government, state media reported Friday.
vendredi 16 octobre 2009
Jailed Vietnamese dissident on hunger strike
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le vendredi 16 octobre 2009, 08:48 - News in english
Hanoi - One of nine Vietnamese dissidents sentenced to prison last week was staging a hunger strike, his wife said Thursday.
samedi 10 octobre 2009
Nine convictions in Vietnam send signal before congress
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le samedi 10 octobre 2009, 08:34 - News in english
HANOI - Vietnam jailed six people on Friday for advocating democracy after similar sentences to three others earlier in the week, moves that analysts say look choreographed to deter dissent in the run up to a major Communist meeting.
jeudi 8 octobre 2009
Vietnam tries six for democracy campaign
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le jeudi 8 octobre 2009, 21:03 - News in english
HAIPHONG — A Vietnamese prosecutor on Thursday sought six-year jail terms for six dissidents charged with hanging out democracy banners, distributing leaflets and campaigning on the Internet.
mercredi 7 octobre 2009
Vietnam democracy activist jailed
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le mercredi 7 octobre 2009, 21:01 - News in english
A court in Vietnam has sentenced a man to three years in prison for hanging a banner over a bridge in Hanoi which called for multi-party democracy.
vendredi 25 septembre 2009
Vietnam officials jailed in office rental scam
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le vendredi 25 septembre 2009, 20:43 - News in english
HANOI — A Vietnamese court sentenced two officials to up to three years in prison Friday for collecting $80,000 in rent from Japanese consultants but dividing it among colleagues instead of putting it in state coffers, a court official said.
mardi 22 septembre 2009
16 stand trial in Vietnam baby selling case
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le mardi 22 septembre 2009, 08:41 - News in english
HANOI — A court in northern Vietnam has put 16 people on trial for allegedly selling more than 250 babies for foreign adoption, a court official said Tuesday.
samedi 29 août 2009
Vietnam boat captain jailed over deadly accident
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le samedi 29 août 2009, 08:49 - News in english
HANOI — A court in Vietnam has jailed a boat captain and the vessel's owner for up to 15 years for their roles in a riverboat accident that killed 42 people earlier this year, reports said Saturday.
vendredi 21 août 2009
Vietnam to put 27 democracy activists on trial
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le vendredi 21 août 2009, 08:45 - News in english
Vietnam is to try a group of pro-democracy activists on charges of violating national security, state media reported Thursday Aug 20.
mardi 18 août 2009
Former Vietnam transport official facing 20yrs jail
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le mardi 18 août 2009, 11:16 - News in english
A former transport official, already sentenced to 13 years imprisonment, is facing another 10 to 20 years in prison after Vietnam's Supreme Procuracy laid new charges against him on Tuesday.
samedi 8 novembre 2008
Vietnam jails political activist
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le samedi 8 novembre 2008, 09:15 - News in english
HANOI - A court in communist Vietnam has jailed a political activist for 18 months for 'causing social disorder' by joining an anti-government protest in the capital, state media reported on Saturday.
mardi 14 octobre 2008
Vietnam journalists on trial for exposing state corruption
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le mardi 14 octobre 2008, 20:46 - News in english
HANOI — Vietnam on Tuesday put on trial two reporters who helped expose a major state corruption scandal, in a case seen as a test on the limits of media freedom in the communist country.
vendredi 10 octobre 2008
Vietnam to try journalists for corruption stories
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le vendredi 10 octobre 2008, 20:03 - News in english
HANOI — Two Vietnamese journalists will go on trial next week for allegedly writing inaccurate stories about one of the country's most high-profile corruption cases, an official said Friday.
