THE jailing of a Vietnamese blogger for 10 years was today condemned by rights groups as “unacceptable” and an attack on free speech.

Truong Duy Nhat, a regular contributor to Radio Free Asia, was found guilty in a brief trial yesterday of defrauding the public of US$560,000 (RM2.4 million) when he worked for a state-owned newspaper in the central city of Danang in 2004, reported state media.