HANOI (Reuters) - A Vietnam appeals court on Friday halved the eight-year jail term of a dissident and cut the six-year term of another to three years of house arrest, sources familiar with the verdict said, in a rare step welcomed by human rights activists.
Nguyen Phuong Uyen, a 21-year-old student, received a six-year prison term in mid-May, while Dinh Nguyen Kha, 25, got eight years after the two were held guilty of distributing "propaganda against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam".
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