Vietnam - Even after sentence reduction, cyber-dissident still has to serve five years in prison

Reporters without borders

Pro-democracy activist Vi Duc Hoi's eight-year jail sentence has been reduced to five years on appeal but is still extremely harsh, Reporters Without Borders said today, reiterating its call for the release of Hoi and all the other 17 netizens currently detained in Vietnam. In a decision issued yesterday, the appeal court also reduced the length of the house arrest that Hoi will have to serve after release from prison from five years to three. The original sentence of eight years in prison (...)

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