HANOI: Vietnam has released two political activists, the latest high-profile dissidents to be freed as the communist nation comes under increasing international pressure over its human rights record.

Blogger Nguyen Tien Trung told Agence France-Presse that he and Vi Duc Hoi, a Com–munist Party official turned democracy campaigner, had been freed on Saturday.

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