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Vietnam - Court to begin hearing blogger Dinh Dang Dinh's appeal

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders calls on the judicial authorities not to turn the blogger Dinh Dang Dinh's appeal into the same kind of judicial farce as his original trial in August, when he was given a six-year jail sentence on a charge of anti-government propaganda. A court is due to being hearing Dinh's appeal tomorrow. “We urge the court to overturn Dinh's conviction and grant him an unconditional release,” Reporters Without Borders said. “Using Article 88 to convict him was an abuse of the law. (...)

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