HANOI: A court in communist Vietnam jailed two activists for over a decade on Friday after finding them guilty of attempting to launch a democratic revolution, their lawyers said.

The authoritarian country leans on a raft of broadly-worded national security laws to detain dissidents and dole out lengthy jail terms, drawing frequent criticism from rights groups and Western governments.

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