May 15, 2007
Reporters Without Borders said it was stunned by a five-year jail sentence handed down today to pro-democracy activist Tran Quoc Hien, the sixth such sentence in a week.
The 42-year-old member of the democratic movement “bloc 8406” and spokesman for the United Workers-Farmers Organization (UWFO) was sentenced for “spreading anti-government propaganda” online and “endangering state security”, at the end of a four-hour trial. He had been arrested in January 2007.
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=22150
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About Le Quoc Quan
- International Forum for Democratic Studies
- From October 2006 to February 2007, lawyer Le Quoc Quan held a Reagan-Fascell Fellowship under the International Forum for Democratic Studies at the National Endowment for Democracy, where he conducted independent research on civil society. Upon his return home to Vietnam in March, he was arrested and charged under Article 79 of the Criminal Code, which proscribes “activities aimed at overthrowing the Government.” The National Endowment for Democracy calls upon the government of Vietnam to arrange for his immediate release.
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