A court in Vietnam's Dak Lak province has sentenced 59-year-old Montagnard Protestant pastor Y Nuen Ayun to seven-and-a-half years in prison for allegedly 'undermining national unity', a ruling his church condemned as an attempt to 'intimidate members into abandoning their faith.'
For context, the prosecution follows years of reported tensions between authorities and the Christian Montagnard community in Vietnam's Central Highlands, a region that has historically experienced disputes involving ethnic minorities, religious groups and the Communist Party-led government.
