Posted on 10/30/2012 12:37:59 AM PDT by cutiedieuvan
The Peoples Court in Ho Chi Minh City today passed sentence on Two Vietnamese songwriters .
Tran Vu Anh Binh, known as Hoang Nhat Thong, 37 and Vo Minh Tri, known as Viet Khang, 34, received sentences of 6 years and 4 years, respectively, with two additional years of house arrest .
The songwriters were charged with spreading anti-government propaganda under Article 88 of the countrys criminal code. They were founding members of the Vietnamese Patriot Youth, an organization not recognized as an official body by the government. Chuacuuthe.com website reported that an estimated 100 security officials blocked access to the court and the signal jammers were used in the Court House. Amnesty International Condemns the Sentence for Two Vietnamese songwriters :
This is a ludicrous way to treat people just for writing songs. These men are prisoners of conscience, detained solely for the peaceful exercise of their right to freedom of expression through their songs and non-violent activities, and should be freed, said Rupert Abbott, Amnesty Internationals Researcher on Viet Nam.
The Vietnamese authorities must abide by their constitutional and international obligations to respect their peoples right to freedom of expression, including through music and other media.
Human Rights Watch condemned the verdict as part of Vietnam's most severe crackdown on freedom of expression, and called for an immediate response from the international community.
There is a very disturbing trend of repression against those who peacefully voice opinions the Vietnamese authorities do not like, said Abbott.
On 14 October 2012, 20-year old college student Nguyen Phuong Uyen was arrested after 10 police stormed into her room . She is reportedly accused of being involved in distributing anti-China leaflets.
Vietnam has stepped up its campaign to clamp down on the Internet. Last month the same court sentenced three bloggers for producing "anti-state propaganda" under Article 88 of the criminal code. Blogger Nguyen Van Hai, alias Dieu Cay, was sentenced to 12 years in prison and Ta Phong Tan was given 10 years, while Phan Thanh Hai got 4 years after a trial lasting just a few hours.
Hương Giang
Its sick to jail people for music...unless they end on an suspended chord and don’t resolve it...I just hate that.
This is horrible. However, I could see something like this happening here if zero gets re-elected.
Code 88. How Stormfront.
England is doing mass arrests of EDL over speech and plotting to make “nuisances”.
Thank you Bill Ayers, I hope you are happy with your “liberated” Vietnam.
It’s so wonderful to see the free People of Vietnam establish a pieceloving, demoncratic, socialistic worker’s pair o’ dice, free from the oppression of Western imperialists and their stooges. This is so patently obvious that the Western running dogs have even normalized relationship and accepted the glorious revolution as reality./sarc
Check out article 58 from the old Soviet Union.
Solzhenitsyn referred to it numerous times in his writings. Basically a blank check that the government used to squash dissent.
Just good old fashioned communism. Nothing new here. 6 years and 4 years might be kind of light in this case.
Here’s that wonderful socialist country of Vietnam that the lefties love so much throwing people in prison for speaking their minds. Leftists can never draw the right conclusions. A lot of the time it’s because they themselves wish to throw people in prison for speaking their minds i.e. disagreeing with socialists.
Here’s that wonderful socialist country of Vietnam that the lefties love so much throwing people in prison for speaking their minds. Leftists can never draw the right conclusions. A lot of the time it’s because they themselves wish to throw people in prison for speaking their minds i.e. disagreeing with socialists.
Let us hope that the sentence is suspended, not just diminished.
Seriously though...I have writen some very naughty songs about the Lyin’ King, and a fantastic parody of the religion of peace.
I could be in a lot of trouble.
Doug comes to mind. I love his politically inspired music videos.
Don’t forget to vote!
One sick state that the lefts love to boast !!! Why don’t they all go and live with their utopia society??? SIGH
Is that the one presided over by Judge Nguyapner?
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