The arrest warrant and prosecution decision against Tam had been officially approved by the Hanoi People’s Procuracy ...

Deputy chair of the Hanoi Bar Association from 2013-2018, Trien has defended activists and represented clients on sensitive issues such as land confiscation. The three Facebook posts he was ...

Charged with "abusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon state interests", the 65-year-old faces up to seven years in jail if found guilty by the court in Hanoi. He was defended by 12 lawyers as ...

The three Facebook posts he was charged over were uploaded ... told AFP the sentence was "yet another example of Hanoi's new wave of repression". Ahead of the verdict in the trial, held over ...