HANOI: A Vietnamese activist received a 15 month suspended prison sentence Tuesday for "abusing democratic freedoms" through his Facebook posts - part of an escalating crackdown on dissent by the communist regime.
Dinh Nhat Uy, 30, was convicted at the end of a one-day trial in the southern province of Long An on charges related to an Internet campaign against his brother's imprisonment for spreading anti-government propaganda, his lawyer said.
