After a one-day trial, a court in the central Vietnam sentences Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, also known as Mother Mushroom, to 10 years in prison on charges of distributing propaganda against the state. The blogger has been jailed since October 2016, when police arrested her as she tried to visit an imprisoned political activist.
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