The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has prompted Vietnam authorities to stop violating “fundamental freedoms” and called for the immediate release of four rights and land activists who were jailed for “spreading anti-state propaganda.” Ravina Shamdasani, OHCHR spokeswoman, said Vietnamese authorities have jailed four prominent human rights defenders—Trinh Ba Phuong, Nguyen Thi Tam, Do Nam Trung, and Pham Doan Trang—in the span of three days this week. “We are deeply troubled by the harsh sentencing of human rights and land rights defenders convicted of spreading anti-state propaganda in Vietnam,” Shamdasani said at a press briefing in Geneva on Friday. On Tuesday, a Hanoi court sentenced prominent dissident journalist Pham Doan Trang to nine years in prison over her conviction of “conducting propaganda against the state.” The same court sentenced activists Trinh Ba Phuong to 10 years in jail and five years of house arrest, and Nguyen Thi Tam …
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