Tuesday, September 22, 2009

News at Eleven: Their alleged crimes included distributing leaflets,

hanging banners on bridges, writing poems and articles and disseminating articles on the Internet calling for democracy, human rights and political pluralism, New York-based Human Rights Watch said. The group said it had obtained a copy of a police report on the case.

Two other activists are expected to be tried separately on the same charge but in the capital Hanoi, relatives said. Poet Pham Van Troi, 37, will be tried on Thursday in Hanoi, said his wife, Nguyen Thi Huyen Trang.

from The Straits Times: 8 Viet dissidents to be tried

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