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Vietnam Gives Reporters Decades-Long Jail Sentences

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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefA court in Vietnam on Tuesday handed down jail sentences of more than a decade each to three journalists found guilty of spreading propaganda against the state.Pham Chi Dung, Nguyen Tuong Thuy and Le Huu Minh Tuan, prominent members of the Independent Journalists Association of Vietnam, were charged with “making, storing, spreading information, materials, items that contain distorted information about the people’s government.” After a half day trial, Dung was given a 15-year jail term, while Thuy and Tuan were sentenced to 11 years in prison.They wrote stories to “distort and defame the people’s administration, infringe the interests of the Communist Party of Vietnam and state,” the Ministry of Public.

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