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16/12/2020 09:44 GMT+7
Man imprisoned for attempting to overthrow people’s administration
Defendant Tran Duc Thach at the court
The People’s Court of north-central Nghe An province on December 15 sentenced Tran Duc Thach to 12 years in prison for “attempting to overthrow the people’s administration”.
Thach, 68, from the province’s Dien Chau district, will be subject to a probationary period of three years upon his release. He was previously sentenced to three years behind bars on charges of “conducting propaganda against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam”.
Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Five
new cases of
COVID-19 were detected in the past 24 hours, all of them Vietnamese
returning from abroad, the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention
and Control announced on December 14 evening.
The new patients, comprising two
from Angola, two from Indonesia and one from Saudi Arabia, were quarantined
right upon their arrival in northern Thai Binh and Ninh Binh provinces, and the
Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap.
With the new cases, the national tally
now stands at 1,402, of which 693 are locally transmitted.
Among the COVID-19 cases in
Vietnam, 1,246 have recovered while the fatalities remain at 35.