Vietnamese Blogger Jailed
On March 29, 2017, Vietnamese blogger Me Nam was presented with the “International Women of Courage” award by the US State Dept. and presented by First Lady Melania Trump. Me Nam was jailed in October 2016, when she was visiting other jailed Vietnamese bloggers. The arrest separated her from her 11-year-old daughter and 5-year old son.
Exactly 90 days after the First Lady’s presentation, Me Nam was convicted in a sham trial and sentenced to 10 years in prison for “distributing propaganda against the State.” The case is an example of the brutal, totalitarian communist regime that has governed Vietnam since the US abandoned it in on April 30, 1975.
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