HANOI, Vietnam — Nguyen Phu Trong, Vietnam's most powerful contemporary leader and architect of the country's largest anti-corruption campaign, died Friday at the age of 80, state media said.
HANOI, Vietnam — Nguyen Phu Trong, Vietnam's most powerful contemporary leader and architect of the country's largest anti-corruption campaign, died Friday at the age of 80, state media said.During Trong's 13 years as general secretary of the Communist Party, thousands of people were arrested on corruption charges and a crackdown on dissidents and activists intensified in the one-party state.
Under Trong, rights groups say a crackdown on dissent has also been escalating since 2016, with the government largely succeeding in crushing opposition.Vietnam currently holds more than 160 people in prison for peacefully exercising their basic civil and political rights, according to Human Rights Watch.The courts convicted at least 28 rights campaigners and sentenced them to long prison terms during the first 10 months of 2023, the group said.
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