Hôm thứ Sáu (16/05/2013) bản tin Fox News một cơ quan thông tấn lớn của Hoa Kỳ đã đưa tin đảng cộng sản Việt Nam xử án Nguyễn Phương Uyên và Nguyên Kha, cùng với một số báo ngoại quốc như dưới đây:Fox News: (chuyển ngữ)

Nhà nước Việt Nam công bố bỏ tù hai sinh viên đến 6 và 8 năm tù vì thả truyền đơn chống Trung Quốc

HÀ NỘI, Việt Nam – Tòa án Việt Nam đã kết án hai sinh viên hoạt động dân chủ từ 6 đến 8 năm tù vì tội phân phát truyền đơn kêu gọi người dân biểu tình chống Trung Quốc.
Tòa án kết tội ngày Thứ Năm (16/05/2013) trong sự đàn áp chống lại bất đồng quan điểm độc đảng, một nhà nước độc tài toàn trị.
Luật sư Nguyễn Thanh Lương cho biết Nguyễn Phương Uyên đã bị kết án sáu năm, trong khi Đinh Nguyên Kha bị kết án tám năm, cuộc xét xử trong cùng một ngày.
Hai sinh viên này bị bắt giữ vào tháng Mười năm 2012 tại thành phố Hồ Chí Minh đã rãi truyền đơn kêu gọi biểu tình phản đối tuyên bố chủ quyền của Trung Quốc ở Biển Đông.

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Vietnam sentences 2 students to 6 and 8 years in prison for distributing anti-China leaflets

Published May 16, 2013

Associated Press

HANOI, Vietnam –  A Vietnamese court has sentenced two student activists to between six and eight years in prison for distributing leaflets calling on people to demonstrate against China.

The sentences Thursday were the latest in an intensified crackdown against dissent in the one-party, authoritarian state.

Lawyer Nguyen Thanh Luong says Nguyen Phuong Uyen was sentenced to six years, while Dinh Nguyen Kha received eight years after a one-day trial.

They were arrested in October in Ho Chi Minh city for handing out leaflets urging protests against China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea.

Popular anger against China puts Hanoi in a difficult position because it can’t afford to alienate Beijing, its large, fellow Communist neighbor.

Luong said the two meant to demonstrate “patriotism and did not mean to oppose the government.”

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Vietnam jails activists for ‘propaganda’ leaflets

AFP 5/16/2013 1:10:36 PM

Vietnam jailed two young activists Thursday for distributing anti-government leaflets, in a case slammed by rights groups as a fresh attempt by the communist regime to silence its critics.

University student Nguyen Phuong Uyen, 21, was given six years in prison for anti-state propaganda, while computer technician Dinh Nguyen Kha, 25, was jailed for eight years, their lawyer told AFP.

Both will have to serve an additional three years of house arrest afterwards, lawyer Nguyen Thanh Luong said by telephone from the court in the southern province of Long An.

“The sentences were too heavy,” he said, adding that although the pair might have committed some minor infractions, the lengthy jail terms were not appropriate.

“They said they did what they did because of their patriotism and to make society a better place. For this to be seen as anti-state propaganda was never what they wished,” he added.

The pair were accused of distributing anti-government leaflets which “humiliated the administration” and called for demonstrations against the regime, according to a copy of the indictment which was posted online.

The charges, which carried a maximum sentence of 20 years in jail, are routinely laid against dissidents in authoritarian Vietnam, where the ruling Communist Party forbids all political debate.

Dozens of activists have been jailed since the one-party state began a new crackdown on free expression in late 2009.

This year alone, at least 38 activists have been convicted of anti-state activity under what rights groups say are vaguely defined articles of the penal code.

AFP’s request to attend the latest trial was turned down by Long An authorities.

Uyen — whose plight has attracted strong online support from Vietnamese activists — had called for the charges against her to be dropped as she addressed the court.

“I am a patriotic student. If the court today charges me with a crime, all young people will be frightened,” she said, according to an unofficial transcript posted online by activists.

Uyen also made a moving appeal in court to Vietnam’s notorious security forces, her lawyer said. “She asked police not to make life difficult for her family and said she took responsibility for what she has done,” he added.

Photographs and reports about the trial were widely shared on dissident blogs and on Facebook. At least three activists who tried to attend the proceedings were detained by police, campaigners said.

Rights defenders had appealed for the two defendants’ immediate release.

“Putting people on trial for distributing leaflets critical of the government is ridiculous,” said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch.

“Vietnam should stop using politically controlled courts to convict critics,” Adams added in a statement.

Vietnam bans private media and all newspapers and television channels are state-run. Lawyers, bloggers and activists are regularly subject to arbitrary arrest and detention, according to rights groups.