A Vietnamese court upheld a prominent dissident’s seven-year jail sentence on Tuesday after he accused the communist country’s prime minister of orchestrating his arrest in an act of revenge. The court rejected the appeal of Cu Huy Ha Vu, 53, after a day-long hearing. Vu, the son of a revolutionary…
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