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Vietnam court upholds 9-year jail sentence for democracy activist

Pham Doan Trang is a journalist-turned-activist, who has published material on human rights and alleged police brutality in Vietnam [File: Adam Bemma/Al Jazeera]

A Vietnamese court has upheld a nine-year prison term for prominent human rights campaigner and writer Pham Doan Trang, who was convicted of anti-state activities, her lawyers and state media said.

On Thursday, the Hanoi People’s High Court rejected Trang’s appeal of a sentence handed down in December at a tightly controlled trial in the capital.

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