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Warnings: Degeneration of a significant part of Vietnamese lawyers
Warnings: Degeneration of a significant part of Vietnamese lawyers
1/4/17
In every society, lawyers are an advanced
group. They are well-educated and trained to be an expert in laws. They use
their law knowledge to plead and protect people who are innocent in court. In
another way, they are a force to enhance laws.
In Vietnam, there are more than
5,000 lawyers. To practise law, a certificate issued by the
Ministry of Justice is required and the lawyer must be admitted to
the Bar in the places he practises. The respective Bar
Association then issues a licence to its members.
The
Vietnamese Lawyers Association (Vietnamese Lawyers
Federation) is the national Bar Association to which the local Bars
are affiliated. The Vietnamese Lawyers Federation is part
of the Fatherland Front.
After Vietnam’s
accession to the World Trade Organization, the Vietnamese
market for foreign lawyers opened up. For example,
foreign law firms advising on Vietnamese legislation and
regulations and the Vietnamese lawyers who are employed by
them may act in legal proceedings. So, lawyers have had favorable
conditions to flourish and develop as the international level. They
Unfortunately, there are a large part of them
who are corrupted and degenerated in moral profession. They act not for law
enforcement but for their own benefits. Some of them have been made corrupt use
by foreign hostile forces. They claim themselves as human rights lawyers and
have taken part into cases which involve prominent anti-government individuals
who were arrested and judged for violating the Vietnamese laws. Vietnam is a
one party country, with reactionary political groups outside the country trying
to use the term of “human rights” or “democracy” to criticize the current
system than to protect human rights.
Even some political degenerate
lawyers have held anti-government activities such as posting articles and
spreading documents that propagandized against the Party and State’s policies.
It can be listed out such several typical human rights lawyers like Cù Huy Hà
Vũ, Lê Công Định, Nguyễn Văn Đài, Lê Thị Công Nhân, Võ An Đôn, Lê Trần Luật,
Nguyễn Bắc Truyền, Trần Quốc Hiển, Lê Quốc Quân, etc.
Cu Huy Ha Vu has been charged
with disseminating propaganda against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in
violation of article 88, article 79 of the penal code on conducting activities
to overthrow the government.
Nguyen Bac Truyen, a lawyer
who is a member of the People's Democratic party, a reactionary organization,
was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison in 2007 under article 88.
But, since his release, he has still been an extreme outspoken member of an
association of former political and religious prisoners, granting aggressive
interviews to Radio Free Asia and the BBC about his prison experiences and
distorting the government’s policies.
Le Quoc Quan, a lawyer whose
firm defended prisoners those violated Vietnamese laws. He was charged with
conducting anti-government activities under article 79.
Other lawyers have been
arbitrarily arrested for extremely engaging in cases of treason or abusing the
rights to freedom of expression and association to carry out illegal acts
against the Party and State of Vietnam. Le Cong Dinh, a former lawyer of the Ho
Chi Minh City Bar Association, to five years in prison on subversion charges
under article 79. His arrest has been attributed to his links with the banned
Democratic Party of Vietnam and to his legal involvement of other human rights
lawyers Le Thi Cong Nhan and Nguyen Van Dai, and Nguyen Van Hai, the blogger
known as Dieu Cay.
Le Thi Cong Nhan, a so-called
democracy activist as well as a lawyer was sentenced to three years in prison
in 2007 under article 88. Crimes listed in her indictment include
"misinterpreting the state's policies regarding labor unions and workers
in Vietnam," joining the Block 8406 democracy movement and the Vietnam
Progressive Party, conducting human rights seminars, and possessing and
distributing documents promoting human rights and democracy.
About Nguyen Van Dai, in
collaboration with reactionary organisations overseas such as the Viet Tan
Party and the People’s Democratic Party, opened courses on human rights at the
Thien An Law Office, but in fact disseminated reactionary information and
material against the Vietnamese State.
Dai himself compiled the Rules of the
organization “The Democratic Party 21” in the hope of wresting power in Vietnam
and dozens of materials and reports distorting religious freedom and democracy
in Vietnam. He called on Vietnamese nationals abroad to boycott Vietnamese
goods and the US to obstruct Vietnam’s entry into the World Trade Organisation
and not to approve permanent normal trade relations with the country. Is that
what a good lawyer would do?
More dangerously, some lawyers
tend to stand against the government in many cases. Trần Vũ Hải - an extreme
lawyer who wants to establish a so-called “Rescue lawyer team” to protect those
being arrested by the police and plead for them in court. He even intends to wage
flag for an opposite organization in the country which would violates the
Vietnamese laws.
It’s a pity that these lawyers, who must be ones
knowing better about laws than anyone have conducted many activities that go
against the Vietnamese laws. Their acts even threatened and caused damages to
the country’s national security and interests. As recently, Do Ngoc Thinh,
president of The Vietnamese Lawyers Federation, said there must be strict
measures to manage lawyers’ professional activities. Those lawyers should awake
and realize their tasks and responsibilities to enhance laws, to respect the
rule of law not to ruin it./.
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Under the label of the so-called “the democratic movement of Vietnam”, these radical lawyers wrote and spread series of articles on the right to found political parties, the civil society and democracy in Vietnam which were published on blogs,websites, etc.
Lawyers must be equipped with a strong political view on enforcing laws and protecting national interests.
These lawyers should be handled and punished by laws because of violating Vietnamese laws.
How can they be called lawyers while they do not protect and enforce the laws!
Not just slandering political matters, these extreme lawyers have also compiled dozens of materials and reports distorting religious freedom and democracy in Vietnam.
We need to educate them and monitor their professional operation in accordance with the laws.
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