Vietnam jails ex-lawyer over Facebook posts

A Vietnamese court jailed a prominent former lawyer for three years on Friday over Facebook posts, a ruling condemned by rights groups as a fresh attack on freedom of expression in the communist country. Tran Dinh Trien, former deputy chair of the Hanoi Bar Association, is the latest high-profile lawyer to be targeted by authorities…

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‘Brutal’ Trump example fascinates EU migration hawks

by Camille CAMDESSUS A name echoes through the corridors of Warsaw Citadel, the Polish capital’s fortress where EU home affairs ministers are discussing how to crack down on irregular migration: that of Donald Trump. The radical tactics of the bellicose US president, who last week threatened his Colombian counterpart with huge levies for turning back…

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