HANOI (AFP) - Vietnamese police blocked about 1,000 Roman Catholics from converging on a Hanoi court Friday where they wanted to support eight fellow believers caught up in a land dispute. An AFP reporter saw hundreds of police deployed and barriers erected about 200 metres (220 yards) from the complex to stop people approaching the trial area. Singing from Bibles, the Catholics carried signs reading: "Justice, truth" and "You are innocent". Another criticised what it called an "unjust" trial. The Catholics and police stood quite closely together but there appeared to be no tension between them. The court case -- an appeal by the eight against their conviction in a land dispute with the communist state -- began at about 0135 GMT.
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