A lawyer for Vietnamese author and journalist Pham Doan Trang has described as tense the one-day trial that resulted in a nine-year sentence for Trang on Tuesday.
The award-winning journalist was convicted of “spreading anti-state propaganda” under Article 88 of Vietnam’s Penal Code. The charge has been criticized by her lawyer Dang Dinh Manh and international rights organizations, who say Trang is being penalize