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Viewing cable 07HOCHIMINHCITY294, FATHER LY TRIED, CONVICTED AND SENTENCED IN HUE: PRELIMINARY

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
07HOCHIMINHCITY294 2007-03-30 08:06 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Consulate Ho Chi Minh City
VZCZCXRO9681
OO RUEHAG RUEHDF RUEHDT RUEHIK RUEHLZ RUEHPB RUEHROV
DE RUEHHM #0294 0890806
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
O 300806Z MAR 07
FM AMCONSUL HO CHI MINH CITY
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 2286
INFO RUEHHI/AMEMBASSY HANOI IMMEDIATE 1637
RUCNARF/ASEAN REGIONAL FORUM COLLECTIVE
RUCNMEM/EU MEMBER STATES
RUEHHM/AMCONSUL HO CHI MINH CITY 2470
UNCLAS HO CHI MINH CITY 000294 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV PHUM PREL VM
SUBJECT: FATHER LY TRIED, CONVICTED AND SENTENCED IN HUE: PRELIMINARY 
REPORT 
 
 
1.  (U) Summary:  Father Nguyen Van Ly, a prominent democracy 
activist and Catholic priest, was tried and found guilty on 
March 30 of progagandizing against the state.  He was sentenced 
to eight years in prison.  Two of his four co-defendents  were 
sentenced to five to six years respectively to be followed by 
several years of house arrest thereafter, for their roles in 
circulating anti-GVN propaganda.  Vietnamese authorities allowed 
diplomats and journalists to witness the trial, which included 
dramatic moments of protest by Father Ly.  ConGen HCMC DPO Chern 
observed the trial and remains in Hue.  He provided Department 
press guidance to international media following the trial, and 
will meet with local officials before returning to HCMC and 
preparing a more extensive report. End Summary 
 
2. (SBU)  Father Nguyen Van Ly was last released from prison as 
part of the February 2005 Tet Amnesty.   A longtime democracy 
activist, Ly had been in prison on this stint since 2001. 
Though technically subjected to "administrative restrictions" (a 
loose house arrest) after his release, Ly neither adhered to any 
restrictions nor were they enforced.  He resumed his 
pro-democracy work and was a founding member of the "8406 Bloc" 
established in April 2006 on the eve of the Tenth Party 
Congress.  Ly, along with the other Hue defendents, branched off 
of the 8406 Bloc and established the Vietnam Progressive Party 
late last year.  In February, the VPP announced it would join 
with the U.S.-based "For the People" Party to form the "Lac 
Hong" Coalition.   Immediately following this announcement, the 
GVN placed Ly under strict church arrest, first at the 
Archbishop's Residence in Hue and later at a more isolated 
provincial church.  (Note:  USG officials met with Ly in Hue on 
two occasions following his release.  In May 2005, HCMC Poloff 
met with Ly and returned with Congressman Chris Smith in 
December 2005.  Neither the Archbishop of Hue, nor the Vatican, 
has embraced Father Ly.  The Church has seen Ly as a political 
rather than a religious advocate.  Unofficially, church 
officials have indicated to us that they saw Ly as an obstacle 
to the Church's efforts to convince the GVN that the Catholic 
Church did not have an anti-Party political agenda.  End Note) 
 
3.  (U) According to a preliminary readout by CONGEN HCMC DPO 
Chern, the trial of Father Ly and four other defendants was held 
as scheduled in Hue City on the morning of March 30.  DPO Chern 
and observers from the European Commission, Sweden, Norway, 
Switzerland and Australia were allowed to watch the proceedings. 
 They were permitted to witness the first 10 minutes of the 
trial in the actual courtroom and were then moved to an adjacent 
room where they could observe the proceedings on closed-circuit 
TV.  Several dozen international and Vietnamese reporters were 
also in the TV viewing room.  The trial lasted three hours, at 
the end of which time the DPO Chern and the other diplomatic 
observers were allowed back into the courtroom to observe the 
sentencing. 
 
4.  (U) The trial was a heated affair starting with Father Ly 
three times shouting out that the court was a puppet and three 
times being ejected from the courtroom, departing the third time 
with the rejoinder that "the Communist Party of Vietnam knows 
only the law of the jungle."  None of the defendents was 
represented by counsel, based on the defendents' decisions to 
represent themselves, the judge stated.  In the trial's most 
dramatic moment, the judge asked Hue activist Nguyen Phong if he 
had "consulted the laws of Vietnam" when forming his 
association.  Phong replied that he had done nothing wrong.  The 
political grouping was formed according to the right of 
association which was "enshrined in UN human rights covenents." 
The judge shouted him down and demanded that he answer question 
asked or lose the right to speak. At the conclusion of the 
trial, the court sentenced Ly to eight years in prison, and his 
co-defendants Nguyen Phong and Nguyen Binh Thanh to six and five 
years in prison, respectively.  The other two defendants 
received suspended sentences and several years of administrative 
probation. 
 
WINNICK