HANOI: Vietnam has stepped up its imprisonment of political activists, Amnesty International said in a report on May 13, intensifying a crackdown that has seen the number of prisoners of conscience increase by almost a third since last year.
Nearly 10% of the 128 prisoners held in the South-East Asian country for expressing dissenting views were jailed for posting anti-state comments on social media platforms such as Facebook, the report said.
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