Vietnamese blogger gets 7 years jail for reporting on toxic spill

November 28, 2017 12:48 PM

BANGKOK (NYTIMES) – A chemical spill that devastated the coast of central Vietnam last year has claimed another casualty, with a 22-year-old blogger sentenced to seven years in prison for posting reports on the disaster.

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