The spokesman for the European External Action Service denounced, on Wednesday 6 January, the sentencing of journalists Nguyen Tuong Thuy and Le Huu Minh Tuan to 11 years in prison and Pham Chi Dung to 15 years, convicted of spreading propaganda against the State. He called, in a statement, for their immediate release.
The sentencing of these three members of the Independent Journalists’ Association of Vietnam “is a negative development”, the spokesman said. “States must protect...