Vietnam jails 70-year-old Australian citizen for 12 years on ‘terrorism’ charges

A court in Vietnam sentenced a 70-year-old Vietnamese-Australian man on Monday to 12 years in prison after finding him guilty of “terrorism”, according to a lawyer who attended the trial.The Ministry of Public Security said in a statement on its official news website that Chau Van Kham was being tried for being a member of the US-based human rights group Viet Tan, which Vietnam regards as a “terrorist” body. It made no mention of the verdict.It said Kham had helped raised funds for anti-state…