Vietnam
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- communist state
- CONSTITUTION
- April 15, 1992
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on communist theory and the French system
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral, National Assembly (Quoc-Hoi)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- People's Supreme Court, head elected for five years by the National Assembly on the recommendation of the President
RELIGIONS
9.3% Buddhists, 6.7% Catholics, other minorities, 80% none
From the country
- JANUARY 7, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International criticised the Vietnamese government...
Amnesty International criticised the Vietnamese government for making the reporting and dissemination of statistics on the use of the death penalty a state secret
- JANUARY 7, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
VIETNAM MAKES NUMBER OF DEATH SENTENCES A TOP STATE SECRET
January 7, 2004: following international criticism about Vietnam´s growing number of capital sentences, Prime Minister Phan Van Khai has listed the number of people condemned to death as a top state secret, an official said Wednesday.
- JANUARY 5, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Following international criticism about Vietnam's growing...
Following international criticism about Vietnam's growing number of capital sentences, Prime Minister Phan Van Khai has listed the number of people condemned to death as a top state secret, an official said
- JANUARY 5, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The Radical members of the European Parliament presented...
The Radical members of the European Parliament presented a parliamentary question with regard to the summary execution of a farmer named Nih
- JANUARY 5, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The Radical members of the European Parliament presented...
The Radical members of the European Parliament presented a parliamentary question with regard to the summary execution of a farmer named Nih
- JANUARY 5, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Three men were sentenced to death by a Vietnamese court...
Three men were sentenced to death by a Vietnamese court for trafficking heroin from Laos
- JANUARY 4, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Six men were executed by a firing squad in Ho Chi Minh...
Six men were executed by a firing squad in Ho Chi Minh City after being convicted of either murder or drug trafficking, the Thanh Nien (Young People) newspaper reported
- DECEMBER 29, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
An ex-deputy police chief in southern Vietnam who shot...
An ex-deputy police chief in southern Vietnam who shot a Communist Party cadre with a machine gun during a meeting to punish him for being disorganised had been executed, officials said
- DECEMBER 25, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Van Thu, a 28 year old unemployed man, was sentenced...
Nguyen Van Thu, a 28 year old unemployed man, was sentenced to death for murdering and robbing a motorbike taxi driver in Vietnam's northern province of Ha Tay
- DECEMBER 20, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Tran Hoai Nam, 27, and Nguyen Van Phi, 28, were shot...
Tran Hoai Nam, 27, and Nguyen Van Phi, 28, were shot in Ho Chi Minh City for producing over 50,000 dollars of fake banknotes
- DECEMBER 19, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The People's Court in Vietnam's southern province of...
The People's Court in Vietnam's southern province of Long An sentenced to death Tran Thi Ngoc Yen, female, for trafficking heroin from Cambodia, the Tuoi Tre newspaper said
- DECEMBER 18, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Seven opium traffickers were sentenced to death by...
Seven opium traffickers were sentenced to death by the People's Court in Vietnam's northern province of Tuyen Quang and 40 others from the drug network were jailed as part of a government crackdown, court officials said