HANOI (Reuters) – In a rare step welcomed by human rights activists, a Vietnam appeals court on Friday halved the eight-year jail term of a dissident and cut the six-year term of another to three years of house arrest.
Given Hanoi’s tough posture on dissent, with arrests and
convictions on the rise in the last three years in the one-party state, the decision was a positive result of sustained pressure on Vietnam, according to New York-based rights group Human Rights Watch.
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