Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh

Vietnam Activist Jailed For ‘anti-State’ Charge

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A Vietnamese activist was jailed for nine years on Tuesday for “anti-state activity”, her lawyer said, the second such heavy sentence handed down by the authoritarian state in less than a month. Dissidents, rights lawyers and bloggers are routinely jailed in the communist country but rights groups and activists accuse the new government in place … Read more

Vietnam Blogger ‘Mother Mushroom’ On Trial

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A prominent Vietnamese blogger known as ‘Mother Mushroom’ went on trial Thursday for anti-state propaganda, a court clerk said, as rights groups decried the charges as “outrageous” and demanded her immediate release. Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, whose penname derives from her daughter’s nickname “mushroom”, was arrested in October 2016 for critical Facebook posts about politics … Read more