{"id":2303,"date":"2007-03-30T08:34:13","date_gmt":"2007-03-30T08:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/03\/sentenced.html"},"modified":"2007-03-30T08:34:13","modified_gmt":"2007-03-30T08:34:13","slug":"sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/03\/sentenced.html","title":{"rendered":"Sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vietnamese priest to be imprisoned:<\/a><\/p>\n

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A Vietnamese court has sentenced dissident Catholic priest Thadeus Nguyen Van Ly to eight years in prison for anti-government activities. Fr. Van Ly, has already spent 14 of the past 24 years in prison and has been under house arrest since February.  4 other people, 2 men and 2 women, were also sentenced to jail terms ranging from 6 months to 1 and a half years. <\/p>\n

60 year old Fr. Van Ly, is accused of being a founding member of Bloc 8406, a pro-democracy movement launched last April. He is also a member of the Progression Party of Vietnam. <\/p>\n

His fellow accused have all admitted to being members of this party. They are: Nguyen Phong, 32 and Nguyen Binh Thanh, 51, both from Hu\u00ea; the women Le Thi Le Hang, 44 i, from Hu\u00ea, and Hoang Thi Anh Dao, 21 from Gialai (montagnard).<\/p>\n

The trial lasted a single day. Fr. Van Ly, in handcuffs, refused to stand up before the court, shouting, \u201cDown with the Vietnamese Communist Party!\u201d. As a result police officers covered his mouth and dragged him from the courts, to a room where a video link was set up with the trial.  <\/p>\n

In an unusually open gesture, authorities allowed the press to follow excerpts of the trail via video. However when Fr. Van Ly shouted, the link was cut. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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