HANOI: A Vietnamese court on Thursday (Feb 27) sentenced a leading independent journalist to 30 months in prison over Facebook posts that criticised the government, state media said. Huy Duc worked for influential state-run newspapers before authoring one of Vietnam's most popular blogs and Facebook accounts, where he criticised the country's communist leaders on issues such as corruption, media control and relations with China. The court in Hanoi convicted the 63-year-old of "abusing

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