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Vietnam jails 3
women for waving flags of former South
By Associated Press
March 30 at 4:26 AM
HANOI, Vietnam — A
Vietnamese court has sentenced three women who held up the flags of the
defeated U.S.-backed South Vietnam to up to four years in prison on charges of
spreading anti-state propaganda, media reported Wednesday.
The women were convicted
of holding anti-state banners, the flags and chanting anti-state slogans
outside the United State diplomatic mission in Ho Chi Minh City in July 2014,
Thanh Nien newspaper reported.
Their trial lasted half
a day Wednesday. Ngo Thi Minh Uoc, 57, got four years, and Nguyen Thi Tri and
Nguyen Thi Be Hai, both 58, were given three years in prison by the People’s
Court in Ho Chi Minh City.
The newspaper said the
three were also given two years of house arrest after serving their sentences.
It quoted the verdict as
saying their action was “very serious, infringing on national security,
distorting, instigating, causing suspicion and mistrust of the people in the
(Communist) Party and state.”
Such open defiance of
the government involving waving the flags of former South Vietnam in the former
capital of Saigon is extremely rare.
The three women
previously had been fined for disturbing public order by participating in
illegal protests, it said.
The sentences came a
week after a court in Hanoi sentenced a prominent blogger to five years in
prison for posting anti-state writings.
International human
rights groups and the U.S. and other governments often criticize Vietnam for
jailing dissidents, but Hanoi maintains that it only punishes only those who
break the law.
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