HANOI: A court in Vietnam jailed a music teacher for 11 years on Friday (Nov 15) for a series of posts on Facebook that the government said were “anti-state”.
Despite sweeping economic reform and increasing openness to social change, Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party retains tight media censorship and does not tolerate criticism.
Nguyen Nang Tinh, 43, was accused of “making and spreading anti-state information and materials” at the one-day trial at the People’s Court in the northern-central provi…