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Vietnam upholds long blogger jail terms

AFP – Two prominent Vietnamese dissident bloggers on Friday lost their appeals against long prison sentences for “anti-state propaganda”, a lawyer said, despite international calls for their release. A court in southern Ho Chi Minh City upheld the convictions of Nguyen Van Hai, alias Dieu Cay.