The defendants at the court (Source: VNA)An Giang (VNA) – The People’s Court of southern An Giang provinceon December 21 sent five local people to jail for conducting “anti-Statepropaganda” under Article 88 of the Penal Code.
NguyenTan An, born in 1992, will serve five years in prison, while the four-yearimprisonment was given to Huynh Thi Kim Duyen, 1979, and Nguyen Ngoc Quy,1992, and a three-year jail term to PhamVan Trong, 1994, and Nguyen Thanh Binh, 1994.
Allof them will be put under house arrest in two years after they finish theirterms.
Accordingto the verdict, Chau Doc city’s policemen detected the yellow flags with threehorizontal red stripes of the old US-backed Saigon regime flying in severalplaces in the city on April 25.
NguyenTan An was arrested on April 30 with many objects related to the production ofthe flag of the old Saigon regime.
Thatarrest led the investigators to the arrest of four others, who admitted that theyestablished secret groups on social networks serving the making anddistribution of the flag of the old Saigon regime in Chau Doc city.
Atthe trial, the defendants admitted that they have been affected by distortedand biased information posted on the Internet that led them to commit these lawviolations.
Acknowledgingtheir sincere declarations, the provincial People’s Court sentenced thedefendants with the lowest penalty framework for the charge for conductinganti-State propaganda.
Thesentence was a deterrent and showed the clemency of the State’s law.-VNA
Acknowledgingtheir sincere declarations, the provincial People’s Court sentenced thedefendants with the lowest penalty framework for the charge for conductinganti-State propaganda.
Thesentence was a deterrent and showed the clemency of the State’s law.-VNA
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