Obviously not good, but it's a bit rich for the official mouthpiece of regime holding Julian Assange prisoner to be talking about this.

The baseline comparison for any human rights issues is the US, which off the top of my head recently jailed a political dissident for a decade over a meme.

When the world leaders in freedom and democracy do this kind of thing, the standards drop globally.

There's also obviously a whole lot more to this particular story: "Bui Tuan Lam has been a political activist for nearly 10 years".