Vietnamese journalist gets 2 1/2 years in prison for Facebook posts
[Bangkok Post] - 03/1/2025
HO CHI MINH — A court in Vietnam sentenced one of the country's most influential journalists to 2 1/2 years in prison Thursday for abusing democratic freedoms with about a dozen posts on Facebook that criticised or questioned the government.
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