HANOI: Vietnamese authorities sentenced an influential YouTuber and campaigner who spoke out on pollution and land rights to five years in jail on an anti-state charge on Thursday, his lawyer said.
Nguyen Chi Tuyen was found guilty of “making, storing and disseminating information, documents and materials against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam” and jailed for five years in Hanoi, lawyer Nguyen Ha Luan told AFP.
Tuyen -- who is also known as Anh Chi -- helped found the football club No-U FC, whose members protested China´s territorial claims in the South China Sea, where Vietnam also has claims.
He was outspoken on sensitive social issues in Vietnam, including environmental pollution and land disputes, as well as on global conflicts such as the war between Russia and Ukraine.
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