AFP
HANOI, VIETNAM - Human rights campaigners and Western governments strongly criticised Communist Vietnam on Thursday for jailing four dissidents, as an appeals court upheld sentences against six more activists.
At a one-day trial in Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday the four were handed sentences of between five and 16 years for 'activities aimed at subverting the people's administration", prompting swift diplomatic reaction.
'The trial and verdicts are a major and regrettable step backwards for Vietnam,' the European Union delegation to Vietnam said.
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