Chief judge of the city court, Nguyen Thi Mai, said on February 14 she has requested two judges, Ngo Van Anh and Le Thanh Ngoc, to submit their reports about their involvement in the issuance of the decision to suspend the appeal hearing for the case in which Vuon appealed the judgment of the Tien Lang People’s Court.

The city court will consult the Supreme People’s Court about the type of disciplinary action to be given to Anh and Ngoc.

As reported earlier, in January 2010 the district People’s Court unlawfully rejected the complaints by Vuon against the land withdrawal decision made by the local authorities.

Vuon appealed the judgment and during the appeal trial in April 2010, Ngo Van Anh, judge of the City People’s Court, ordered the creation of a written agreement between the parties concerned. Under the agreement, if Vuon revoked his complaint, the district authorities would continue to let them use the land.

After the complaint was withdrawn, however, and the City Court issued a decision to suspend the appeal hearing, the district authorities suddenly issued the forced removal decision to Vuon, leading to his violent response that caused injury to six police officers on January 5, 2012.

As for Pham Thi Nga, deputy chief judge of the Tien Lang People’s Court, who presided over the trial in which Vuon lost his case, Mai said that she was waiting for opinions from the city Party Committee’s Standing Board before consulting the Supreme People’s Court about disciplinary action against Nga.

On February 13, the Supreme People’s Court issued a decision to protest the verdict arrived at by Hai Phong City’s Tien Lang District Court, and the city People’s Court’s decision to suspend Vuon’s appeal hearing against the district authorities’ withdrawal of 40 hectares of land allocated to him in 1993 and 1997.

The chief judge of the Supreme Court concluded that both the administrative verdict and the suspension decision be canceled and demanded that the case be re-investigated.

On February 14, the Tien Lang District’s Party Committee and government announced their respective decisions to suspend Phan Dang Hoan, secretary of the Vinh Quang Commune Party Committee, and Le Thanh Liem, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and chairman of the commune People’s Committee for their wrongdoings in the withdrawal and forced removal imposed on Vuon.

On February 7, Tien Lang district People’s Committee Le Van Hien and his deputy Nguyen Van Khanh were suspended for the same reasons.

After the violent resistance, Vuon and 3 other members of his family have been arrested and prosecuted on charges of attempted murder, while 2 other members, including Vuon’s wife, were indicted for resisting law enforcement officers on duty, but were let out on bail.