05/24/2012
Four Catholic students who had been handing out flyers to promote religious freedom and protection of life have been put behind bars. NGOs are protesting
vatican insider staff rome
Sentenced to prison for “propaganda against the State”: this is the fate of 4 Catholic students, tried by a court in Hanoi today for a crime that the Criminal Code punishes with prison sentences between 3 and 20 years, Fides news agency reported. Duong Van Dau, Tran Huu Duc, Chu Manh Son and Hoang Phong, all between 23 and 25, come from the small Catholic community in the province of Nghe An and were arrested last year on charges of being “subversive”, for distributing leaflets against the communist regime. These leaflets, reports a source of Fides, promoted freedom of religion and expression, the fight against abortion, blood donation, aid to orphans and victims of natural disasters.
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