HANOI, Vietnam--- A Vietnamese blogger was sentenced to nearly three years in jail on Friday for smearing white paint on the national flag in the one-party communist country where defacing state symbols is deemed an egregious offense. Huynh Thuc Vy, an outspoken activist who is eight weeks pregnant with her second child, has been under house arrest since August after she posted a photo of herself with the vandalized flag on her Facebook page. She was sentenced to two years and nine months years in jail for "defacing the national flag" after a half-day trial in central Dak Lak province, she told AFP. The maximum sentence for the crime was three years. The court said she can serve...
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