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Vietnam Sentences Journalist to 15 Years
January 06, 2021
Freelance journalists of the Independent Journalists Association of Vietnam Pham Chi Dung, right, Le Huu Minh Tuan, center, and Nguyen Tuong Thuy stand during their trial Jan. 5, 2021.
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A Vietnamese court sentenced journalist Pham Chi Dung to 15 years in prison on Wednesday. He had been found guilty of making and spreading “propaganda against the state.”
Dung, who has written for the Voice of America Vietnamese-language website, is the president and founder of the Independent Journalist Association of Vietnam. The organization was established in 2014 to support independent media in the one-party Communist country.