A court in communist Vietnam on October 30 sentenced a blogger who criticised the government to 12 years in jail on charges of publishing anti-state information, his lawyer said, after a secret trial. Duong Van Thai regularly posted YouTube livestreams that criticised Vietnam’s authoritarian government, accusing it of corruption. He resurfaced in Vietnamese custody last...

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