ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE> Doi Thoai - Tu Do Dan Chu cho To Quoc Viet Nam - Vu An Nguyen Khac Toan</TITLE> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT=""> <META NAME="Author" CONTENT="doithoai"> <META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="Viet Nam, Viet, vietnam, vietnamese,free press for vietnam, Democracy, Freedom, Nguoi Viet, Vietnamese Dissidents, Dau Tranh, Que Huong, Tin tuc, tac gia, van chuong viet nam, vietnamese culture, Saigon, Hanoi, Hue, vietnamien, vietnamiens, Vietnamien, Vietnamiens,nguyen khac toan, News, news,Community, community, communauté, Communauté, Phuong Nam."> <META NAME="Description" CONTENT="Vietnamese newspaper fighting for free press in vietnam, the voice of freedom writers being oppressed by the Vietnamese communist party. "> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="doithoai.css"></link> </HEAD> <body bgcolor="#F0F8FF"> <div align="justify"> <!-- bài b¯t §u të ây....--> <table width="100%" bgColor="#CCCCFF" border=2> <tr><td width="100%"> <h2 align=center><font color="red">Vå Án NguyÅn Kh¯c Toàn </font></h2> </td></tr></table> <!-- bài b¯t §u të ây....--> <div align=right><b>Vietnam "spy" gets 12 years for Internet dissent</b><br>Saturday December 21, 4:35 PM - Reuters</div></td></tr></table></p> <p>HANOI (Reuters) - Communist Vietnam has jailed a 47-year-old man for 12 years, accusing him of helping an overseas dissident group collect complaints against the government via the Internet and branding him a spy. <p>The sentence, the latest in Hanoi's crackdown on cyberspace dissent, triggered a protest by human rights group Amnesty International which expressed "profound shock" at the news. <p>The state-run Vietnam News Agency said late on Friday that the People's Court of Hanoi sentenced Nguyen Khac Toan on a charge of espionage. <p>Toan, a resident of the capital city, "received direct orders" from members of an exile "Vietnamese reactionary organisation" based in France to gather letters of complaints and protests from those unhappy with Hanoi. <p>The group was not identified. <p>Amnesty said Toan had been a soldier and a mathematics teacher before going into business. <p>"The branding of Nguyen Khac Toan as a 'spy' not only stifles freedom of expression through the use of loosely worded national security legislation but also criminalises activities which are regarded as perfectly legal under international law and in most countries of the world," Amnesty said. <p>Last month, Hanoi jailed Le Chi Quang, who published criticisms of Vietnam's border pact with China on the Internet, for four years.</p> <hr></hr> <p align=right><a href="vuan_nguyenkhactoan.html"><b>Vå Án NguyÅn Kh¯c Toàn</b></a></p> </div> </BODY> </HTML>