Another political activist is jailed
From Times Wire Reports
A court sentenced a farmworker organizer to five years in prison, making him the seventh Vietnamese political activist jailed for subversion since March.
Western political analysts and diplomats have cited Sunday’s National Assembly elections and President Nguyen Minh Triet’s planned summer visit to the United States to explain the timing of what rights groups have described as a crackdown by the ruling Communist Party.
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