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  5. Date:         Tue, 22 Dec 1992 12:20:14 -0500
  6. Sender:       Southeast Asia Discussion List <SEASIA-L@MSU.BITNET>
  7. From:         Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
  8. Subject:      NEWS/VN: court jails 4 film-makers
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  13. VIETNAMESE COURT JAILS FOUR FILM-MAKERS
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  15.     HANOI, Dec 21, Reuter - A court in Ho Chi Minh city has jailed four
  16. Vietnamese film-makers for working with a Hong Kong company that produced a
  17. film alleged to have contained anti-government propaganda, a spokesman for the
  18. court said on Monday.
  19.     Two of the film-makers, Pham Cong Canh and Pham Kim Thanh were sentenced to
  20. three years imprisonment by the People's Court on November 25. Nguyen Quoc Minh
  21. was sentenced to two years and Huynh Xay for 16 months.
  22.     They were convicted of "violating the law, irresponsibility and
  23. anti-government propaganda," the spokesman said.
  24.     The Vietnamese army newspaper, Quan Doi Nhan Dan, reported earlier that
  25. Canh, a former head of the state-run Union of Video-Cinematography Enterprises
  26. signed a contract in 1989 with Hong Kong's Chun Sing Film Co (CSF) to provide
  27. services for a film called "Loving the Song from Vietnam."
  28.     The newspaper said the union "lost its sense of vigilance" and allowed CSF
  29. to use "sophisticated and wicked tricks to violate the contract, making a film
  30. with reactionary content to smear the Socialist Republic of Vietnam."
  31.     No other details were immediately available.
  32.