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Practicing legal profession in Vietnam

Posted 31 July 2011 21:42 GMT 1 · Written by Mong Palatino

Categories: East Asia, Vietnam, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Law, Politics, Protest

Attorney Huynh Van Dong writes about the challenges facing lawyers ^[1] in Vietnam. He reports that an increasing number of lawyers are now in jail for “expressing their own personal opinion.”