HANOI (Vietnam News/ANN): The High-Level People’s Court in Hanoi on Monday (March 8) opened the appeal trial of six defendants related to a deadly land dispute in Hoành Village of Đồng Tâm Commune, Hà Nội’s Mỹ Đức District, in January 2020.
At the appeal trial, scheduled to last through March 10,11 lawyers will represent the defendants and two others will represent the families of the three police officers who died in the incident alongside Lê Đình Kình, an 84-year-old Đồng Tâm resident considered to be the leader of the villagers.