Truong Huy San, who is better known by the pen name Huy Duc, was convicted of “abusing democratic freedoms.”
A Vietnamese court yesterday sentenced a prominent independent scholar and journalist to 30 months in prison over Facebook posts that criticized the government.
Truong Huy San, better known by the pen name Huy Duc, was convicted of “abusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the state” under Article 331 of the penal code, according to a report in state media.
The catch-all charge relates to 13 articles that the 63-year-old posted on his Facebook page, “Truong Huy San (Osin Huy Duc),” which appears to have been deactivated.
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