Vietnam: Overturn Activist Blogger’s Sentence

Vietnamese authorities should void the conviction of blogger Ho Thi Bich Khuong, 44, and immediately free her. 

(New York) – Vietnamese authorities should void the conviction of blogger Ho Thi Bich Khuong, 44, and immediately free her. The People’s Court of Nghe An is scheduled on May 30, 2012, to hear her appeal against her five-year sentence for violating article 88 of the penal code, which forbids “conducting propaganda against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.”

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