Vietnam Sends Blogger to Prison for 15 Months
 

Vietnam Sends Blogger to Prison for 15 Months
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Vietnam has jailed a prominent opposition blogger for 15 months, accusing him of "abusing democratic freedoms" with his blog posts against the government.

Pham Viet Dao, 62, was arrested in June 2013 for posting several articles against Vietnam's leaders. The authorities charged Dao, a former official at the Ministry of Culture and member of the Vietnam Writers Association, with a crime of "abusing democratic freedoms to infringe on the interests of the State." Judge Ngo Tu Hoc found him guilty in a two-hour-trial celebrated in Ha**i on Wednesday, according to multiple news reports.

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