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- Subject: Viet: Film Makers Jailed
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- Date: 22 Dec 92 18:22:00 GMT
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- From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
- Subject: Viet: Film Makers Jailed
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- From @PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU:SEASIA-L@MSU.BITNET Tue Dec 22 09:24:53
- 1992
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- 12/21
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- VIETNAMESE COURT JAILS FOUR FILM-MAKERS
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- HANOI, Dec 21, Reuter - A court in Ho Chi Minh city has jailed
- four Vietnamese film-makers for working with a Hong Kong company
- that produced a film alleged to have contained anti-government
- propaganda, a spokesman for the court said on Monday.
- Two of the film-makers, Pham Cong Canh and Pham Kim Thanh were
- sentenced to three years imprisonment by the People's Court on
- November 25. Nguyen Quoc Minh was sentenced to two years and Huynh
- Xay for 16 months.
- They were convicted of "violating the law, irresponsibility
- and anti-government propaganda," the spokesman said.
- The Vietnamese army newspaper, Quan Doi Nhan Dan, reported
- earlier that Canh, a former head of the state-run Union of
- Video-Cinematography Enterprises signed a contract in 1989 with
- Hong Kong's Chun Sing Film Co (CSF) to provide services for a film
- called "Loving the Song from Vietnam."
- The newspaper said the union "lost its sense of vigilance" and
- allowed CSF to use "sophisticated and wicked tricks to violate the
- contract, making a film with reactionary content to smear the
- Socialist Republic of Vietnam."
- No other details were immediately available.
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