#Penal Code

The Presidential Office held a press conference to announce the President’s order promulgating several laws and ordinances passed by the 15th National Assembly and its Standing Committee, on the morning of July 3, in Hanoi.

The People's Court of Hanoi on April 12 sentenced 47-year-old Nguyen Lan Thang, a resident of Hanoi’s Dong Da district - to six years in prison for "making, storing, disseminating or propagandising information, documents, materials aimed at opposing the Socialist Republic of Vietnam" under the Penal Code.

The People’s Court of Buon Ho town in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak on November 30 sentenced Huynh Thuc Vy, 33, to 2 years and 9 months in prison for insulting the national flag following Article 276 of the 1999 Penal Code (revised in 2009).

PSNews - The indefinite international wanted notice for Trinh Xuan Thanh means the Vietnamese investigation agency will take necessary operational measures to catch Trinh Xuan Thanh, Senior Lieutenant General Le Quy Vuong said on the sidelines of the NA’s meeting on November 4.

The draft law amending and supplementing some articles of the Penal Code No. 100/2015/QH13 was under debate at the plenary meeting of the National Assembly on October 26.

President Tran Dai Quang chaired the first session of the Central Steering Committee for Judicial Reform in the 2016-2021 tenure in Hanoi on September 17.