Leading Vietnam Blogger Draws Five-Year Sentence
The Hanoi People’s Court on March 23 sentenced prominent independent blogger Nguyễn Hữu Vinh, known also by his pen name Anh Ba Sam or “Brother Gossip,” to five years in prison for charges related to his work.
Under the Vietnamese Criminal Code he was charged with “misusing democratic freedom to encroach on State interests [and] the legitimate rights of …
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