Human Rights Watch has asked for the provisions to be repealed
Aerial view of Ho Chi Minh City(Diego Delso, delso.photo, License CC-BY-SA)
Vietnam’s revised penal code would hold lawyers criminally responsible if they fail to report clients to authorities for a number of crimes reports Human Rights Watch.
The revised laws also increase penalties for acts of dissent towards the government including “activities aiming to overthrow the people’s administration” (article 79), “undermining national unity policy” (article 87), “conducting propaganda against the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam” (article 88) and “disrupting security” (article 89).
The new measures have drawn sharp criticism from activists who feel that the law is an attempt to stifle free speech and from lawyers who say that the new clause forces them to break lawyer-client confidentiality which goes against Criminal Procedure Code and the Law on Lawyers.
“Requiring lawyers to violate lawyer-client confidentiality will mean that lawyers become agents of the state and clients won’t have any reason to trust their lawyers,” said Brad Adams, HRW’s Asia director. “Vietnam considers any criticism or opposition to the government or Communist Party to be a ‘national security’ matter – this will undermine any possibility of real legal defense in such cases.”
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