(MENAFN- The Peninsula) A Vietnamese court has jailed three activists for up to three years after a one-day trial marked by strict security including the detention of scores of supporters.
Bui Thi Minh Hang, a high-profile anti-China activist, was given a three-year jail term by the court in the southern Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap.
She was found guilty of "causing public disorder," her lawyer Tran Thu Nam said.
Hang, 50, was arrested alongside the two other activists in February when they were on their way to visit a former political prisoner who lives in Dong Thap province. Rights activist Nguyen Thi Thuy Quynh, 28, was jailed for two years. Nguyen Van Minh, 34, who is an independent Hoa Hao Buddhist practitioner, received a two-and a-half year jail term.
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