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=Vietnam dissident disrupts trial, claims innocence= My article is about a Vietnam dissident interrupting a court trial on them. Tran Khai Thanh Thuy, the defendant, claims that she and her husband are innocent. She is convicted of assault on two people. She says that her husband was being attacked and she was merely trying to scare the attackers off. The situation was two people had asked Thuy's husband to move his motorcycle. The two people either attacked Thuy's husband or Thuy is the one that attacked. One of the two people say that they now have a head injury. Thuy says that after she was hit by a brick, neighbors tried to help Thuy and her husband, but were blocked by security forces. She testifys that she is the victim, not the assaulter. In the end, Thuy was sent to jail for 3 and half years and her husband has a 30 month suspended sentence. The testimony was on Thursday, Feruary 4th, 2010. This happened in Vietnam.

My Seattle Times article was when the incident happened. My BBC Article was a day after what happened. Both of my articles gave the same quote: "Their actions were of a hooligan nature and harmed the health of others," said prosecutor Nguyen Nhu Quynh. BBC is mainly talking about the verdict and a little summary of what happened in court. Seattle Times had more detail about what happened in court.

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I actually think this situation is kind of confusing. For one thing, why would Thuy attack people just because the two men asked Thuy's husband to move their motorcycle? It would be out of random. It would make more sense, that the two men were beating Thuy's husband and Thuy tried to help her husband. and yet, Thuy and her husband are guilty. I just don't get it. A part of Vietnam is so different from what I thought.