Vietnam - Blogger Truong Duy Nhat gets two years

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Truong Duy Nhat, a blogger based in the central city of Danang who has been held since May 2013, was sentenced to two years in prison today on a charge of “abusing democratic freedoms to infringe on the interests of the state and on the legitimate rights and interests or organizations and citizens.” “We are outraged by the continuing persecution of bloggers,” said Benjamin Ismaïl, the head of the Reporters Without Borders Asia-Pacific desk. “Like Le Quoc Quan, whose jail term was upheld two (...)

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