Dismayed to learn that a Hanoi appeal court upheld Vietnamese journalist Pham Doan Trang’s nine-year jail sentence after she refused to plead guilty to “anti-state propaganda,” Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Vietnam’s commercial partners, including the European Union and United States, to use their trade agreements with Hanoi to press for the release of this journalist, who was awarded the RSF Press Freedom Prize in 2019.