Asia - Another blogger gets jail term on anti-government propaganda charge

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders deplores the five-year jail sentence that a Hanoi people's court passed on the blogger Le Thanh Tung at the end of a summary one-hour trial on 11 August, just three days after fellow blogger Dinh Dang Dinh was given a six-year sentence. Both bloggers were convicted of anti-government propaganda under article 88 of the criminal code. Tung was given an additional four years of house arrest after completing the jail term. Of his relatives and friends, only his wife, (...)

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