September 30, 2015
Vietnamese Land-Rights Petitioner Receives 18-Month Prison Term
RFA | Sep 29, 2015 A Vietnamese court on Monday sentenced a land-rights petitioner to 18 months in prison on public-order charges after she petitioned unsuccessfully for the legal right to land farmed by her family in the northern province of Ninh Binh, sources said. Vu Thi Hai, born in 1961, had been detained since […]
December 9, 2015
Hanoi Court Rejects Appeal of Land Petitioner Vu Thi Hai but Reduces Sentence to 15 Months
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights], Vu Thi Hai (Ninh Binh)
By Vu Quoc Ngu, December 09, 2015 The People’s Court in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi on Wednesday [December 09] rejected the appeal of Ninh Binh province-based land petitioner Vu Thi Hai but reduced her 18-month imprisonment to 15 months in jail in a nominally opentrial that was in fact closed to the public and […]