HANOI, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- One more member of the "reactionary organization" Viet Tan was deported from Vietnam, Vietnam News Agency reported Thursday.

    Nguyen Thi Thanh Van, a French national, was deported on Wednesday at the Tan Son Nhat International Airport in southern HoChi Minh City in the witness of representatives from the French General Consulate.

    Van, 51, a reporter of the "Democratic Vietnam" newspaper and the radio "New Horizon," regularly wrote articles with distorted information to undermine the Vietnamese state, the news agency said. In November, she brought 7,000 leaflets from Cambodia's capital city of Phnom Penh to Vietnam for spreading.

    After her arrest on Nov. 11, Van showed repentance and made a written request for clemency, pledging not to take part in the Viet Tan's activities to sabotage the Vietnamese state, the report said.

    Another Viet Tan member, Truong Leon, an American man of Vietnamese origin, was deported from Vietnam on Dec. 11.

    In 2002, local police discovered that the Viet Tan had instructed a number of its elements in Vietnam to gather a clandestine suicide squad to assassinate local state officials.

    After the squad was wiped out by local police, the Viet Tan has focused on launched reactionary radio channels and distributing leaflets under the cover of democracy and human rights, local media reports said.