[JURIST] The Supreme People's Court of Vietnam [official website, in Vietnamese] on Tuesday upheld the conviction of US-trained lawyer Le Quoc Quan [HRW backgrounder], a known anti-government activist. The appeal [AP report] was heard over a half-day trial with the court stating that they had found no new evidence and that the sentence of 30 months in jail, handed down in Quan's October tax evasion trial [JURIST report], was well founded. More than 100 demonstrators gathered at the courthouse to...
Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/02/vietnam-appeals-court-upholds-conviction-of-activist-lawyer.php
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