美国对越南活动人士被定罪表示关注 US 'Concerned' at Conviction of Vietnamese Activists

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17 May, 2013

美国说,对两名年轻活动人士在越南被判徒刑表示关注,他们本星期被判颠覆罪。

经过星期四的一天审讯后,大学生阮芳鸳被判6年监禁,电脑技工廷阮可被判8年监禁。

他们被判散发越南当局所说的“反政府传单”的罪名成立,当局认为这些传单侮辱了越南共产党政府。

美国驻河内大使馆星期五说,这种判决与自由表达观点的权利相悖,并敦促越南当局立即释放所有良心犯。

美国大使馆的声明说,越南当局越来越多地利用国家安全法起诉并监禁以和平方式表达自己政治观点的批评人士,而这一案件就是这种令人不安的趋向的组成部分。

The United States says it is concerned at the prison sentences given to two young activists in Vietnam who were convicted this week on subversion charges.

College student Nguyen Phuong Uyen was given six years in prison, while computer technician Dinh Nguyen Kha received eight years following a one-day trial Thursday.

They were found guilty of spreading what Vietnamese authorities said were "anti-government" leaflets that "humiliated" the country's communist government.

On Friday, the U.S. embassy in Hanoi said the sentences were "inconsistent with the right to freedom of expression," and called for the immediate release of all prisoners of conscience.

The statement said the case is "part of a disturbing trend of Vietnamese authorities using charges under national security laws to imprison government critics for peacefully expressing their political views."