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BANGKOK — A prominent Vietnamese legal scholar and human-rights campaigner who has called for multiparty democracy is due in court Monday in Hanoi, facing up to 12 years in prison in a case that has mobilized unusually broad public support.
The defendant, Cu Huy Ha Vu, 53, has been in prison since November, charged with anti-state propaganda for posting critical articles on the Web and giving interviews “maligning party and state institutions and policies,” according to the government.
Vu’s case has spread across the Internet, drawing support from political bloggers, academics, journalists, Communist Party members and the general public.
