The Hanoi People’s Court sentenced Wednesday 62-year-old blogger Pham Viet Dao to 15 months in prison for writing and posting articles that slandered, defamed, and assailed the Party and State on his three blogs.
After taking all into account, the court gave the above sentence to the blogger.
Dao is the second blogger to be jailed for abusing democratic freedoms within a fortnight.
On March 4, the central Da Nang City People’s Court sentenced blogger Truong Duy Nhat, 41, to two years behind bars on the same charge as Dao.
According to the court verdict, Nhat posted many articles written by himself and stories and comments by others on his blog from 2009 to May 25, 2013.
The judge said 11 of Nhat’s articles and one entry written by another person contained false information that “distorted the Party’s guidelines and policies and the State’s laws as well as offered a one-sided and pessimistic perspective which caused public concern and thus undermined the public trust in the leadership of the Party and in the State’s laws.”
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