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1. A court in Vietnam sentences a Facebook user to one and a half year in prison for uploading anti-state posts.
   2020-04-27 19:05:06 (First version)
2. A court in Vietnam sentences a man to one and a half years in jail for posting anti-government content on Facebook.
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