Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

A woman writer was sentenced to five years in prison in Vietnam for spreading anti-government propaganda, state media said Friday, with an activist pastor also jailed for two years.

Hanoi - The Vietnamese government on Monday began an appeal trial of a prominent legal rights activist jailed for spreading propaganda against the state.

Vietnam has released two high-profile dissidents nine days after their arrest outside a Hanoi court during the trial of a fellow democracy activist, one of the freed men said Thursday.

Cu Huy Ha Vu has received a 7-year prison sentence on charges of “conducting anti-propaganda against the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam” pursuant to Article 88 of the Penal Code, in a trial in Hanoi on April 4.

A court in Vietnam is to try one of the country's most famous legal rights activists on April 4, his family said Monday.

HANOI — A prominent government critic accused of advocating a multi-party system in Vietnam will be tried later this month, his wife said Friday.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.