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
- APRIL 28, 2001VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Five men were sentenced to death by a southern Vietnam...
Five men were sentenced to death by a southern Vietnam court in a trial of nine people accused of drug trafficking from Laos (2
- APRIL 25, 2001VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Vietnam voted against the resolution on the death penalty...
Vietnam voted against the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 25, 2001 (2001/68)
- APRIL 12, 2001VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Vietnam President Tran Duc Luong commuted the death...
Vietnam President Tran Duc Luong commuted the death sentences for 13 inmates to life imprisonment
- APRIL 6, 2001VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Vietnamese dissidents in exile accused Hanoi of brutally...
Vietnamese dissidents in exile accused Hanoi of brutally repressing Christians and Buddhists, alleging hill tribe people were attacked and tortured to death after recent protests in the Central Highlands
- MARCH 24, 2001VietnamDEATH PENALTY
A Vietnamese court in Nam Dinh Province, sentenced...
A Vietnamese court in Nam Dinh Province, sentenced to death three defendants for trafficking two kg of heroin and five kg of opium
- MARCH 20, 2001VietnamDEATH PENALTY
At a conference on drug addiction, the Vietnam Labor...
At a conference on drug addiction, the Vietnam Labor Confederation reported that around 10,300 cases of drug trafficking, possession and use involving 19,500 culprits were found in the 1999-2000 period
- MARCH 20, 2001VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Judges in the southern Vietnamese provincial capital...
Judges in the southern Vietnamese provincial capital Ca Mau were chased out of court and beaten after failing to hand down a death sentence to a teenager found guilty of rape, robbery and murder
- MARCH 2, 2001VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Seven men were sentenced to death for drug trafficking...
Seven men were sentenced to death for drug trafficking and circulating counterfeit U
- DECEMBER 22, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
A court in central Vietnam sentenced 43-year-old Lieutenant-Colonel...
A court in central Vietnam sentenced 43-year-old Lieutenant-Colonel Le Van Luen a former senior police officer, to death by firing squad for dealing in heroin, bringing the number of people sentenced to death for drug trafficking in 2000 to at least 49
- DECEMBER 6, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The Vietnamese journal An Ninh Thu Do (Police Journal)...
The Vietnamese journal An Ninh Thu Do (Police Journal) reported that during November the police division in charge of drug prevention and control of Hanoi City worked closely with public security units in districts and precincts to successfully handle 150
- NOVEMBER 28, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Deputy Nong Thai Nghiep from Thai Nguyen province criticized...
Deputy Nong Thai Nghiep from Thai Nguyen province criticized the judiciary for not carrying out the sentences issued by the courts
- NOVEMBER 27, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The Hanoi People's Court handed down five death sentences...
The Hanoi People's Court handed down five death sentences and six life imprisonment sentences to 11 defendants for involvement in a drug trafficking ring