Vietnam jails activists:

Two Vietnamese cousins have been convicted for spreading anti-state “propaganda”, state media reported, a ruling condemned by rights groups as the authoritarian country’s latest crackdown on dissent.

Nguyen Huu Quoc Duy, 31 and his cousin Nguyen Huu Thien An, 21, were convicted of “propaganda against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,” at a closed one-day trial, state-run Vietnam News Agency (VNA) said late Tuesday.

Duy was found guilty of sharing “dozens of articles with wrongful viewpoints... distorting the party and state policy” on his Facebook page, VNA reported, citing the verdict from the court in Vietnam’s southern Khanh Hoa province. (AFP)