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• Rural (Vietnam)

  Petition Calls on Vietnam to Reverse Death Sentence in Land Dispute Killings

  9 January 2018, by RFA’s Vietnamese Service

  Hundreds of signatories have lent their support to a petition calling on Vietnam’s President Tran Dai Quang and the country’s Supreme Court to reverse a death sentence for a farmer who killed three people in a land dispute, saying the verdict in the case is too severe.
  A court in central (...)

• Rural (Vietnam)

  ​Land grabbing: Vietnam farmers get death, long jail terms for murder in deadly land row

  5 January 2018, by Tuoi Tre News Society

  A Vietnam court sentenced one farmer to death and given multiple-year jail terms to two others this week for fatally shooting three employees of a company in a land dispute in October 2016.
  The convicted farmers said they were only trying to protect their land plots from being forcefully (...)