Vietnam frees dissident ahead of president's US visit |
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Vietnam frees dissident ahead of president's US visit |
 Jun 10 2007, 12:27 PM
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http://www.todayonline.com/articles/193510.asp
Vietnam frees dissident ahead of president's US visit Time is GMT + 8 hours Posted: 10-Jun-2007 15:55 hrs Vietnam President Nguyen Minh Triet during a press conference in Hanoi, November 2006. President had on Friday granted amnesty a prominent dissident ahead of the first US visit by a post-war Vietnamese head of state later this month. Vietnam has freed a key political dissident less than two weeks before the first US visit by a post-war Vietnamese head of state, a prison official and state media said Sunday. . Nguyen Vu Binh, a 39-year-old journalist and so-called "cyber dissident," was released Saturday afternoon and allowed to return to his Hanoi home, the state-run Vietnam News Agency (VNA) said. . It said President Nguyen Minh Triet had on Friday "granted amnesty to a man who was serving a jail term for spying." . It named him as Binh, who was arrested in September 2002, jailed for seven years and given three years' house arrest. . An official on duty at Nam Ha prison, about 50 kilometres (35 miles) south of the capital Hanoi, who declined to give his name, confirmed to AFP that Binh was released on Saturday. . Vietnamese Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem had indicated during a visit to the US in March that the communist government could free Binh, whom supporters and human rights groups said had been in poor health. . Since then, several dissident trials in Vietnam leading to lengthy jail terms have raised tensions with Washington ahead of Triet's meeting with US President George W. Bush, scheduled for June 22. |
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Jun 11 2007, 06:25 AM
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What about Father Nguyen Van Ly?
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 Jun 11 2007, 07:53 AM
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AF Fiend Group: Members Posts: 424 Joined: 28-July 06 From: Born in Cam Ranh |
QUOTE(Cookielover @ Jun 11 2007, 09:25 PM) [snapback]2996808[/snapback] What about Father Nguyen Van Ly? Father Thaddeus Nguyen Van Ly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen_Van_Ly This post has been edited by QuangCamRanh: Jun 11 2007, 07:53 AM |
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Jun 11 2007, 01:07 PM
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QUOTE(Cookielover @ Jun 11 2007, 07:25 AM) [snapback]2996808[/snapback] What about Father Nguyen Van Ly? Oh ofcourse his legal confinement will proceed accordingly until he has learned best to leave the politic to Caesar and refining his soul to God. As a Christian leader he should know the famous line when Jesus spoke to the Herodians (ie, a 1st century Jewish polical party) when they manipulatively drove Jesus into politic and democracy, "'Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's"  The Bible has always called for submission and obedience to political leaders, despite persecution or inequality. But here we have the so called "father" Ly who's using his very own religion falsely leading the people into political activities such as "party formation" !!! Clearly an act of opportunism!!  Well unless, joining his Progressive party would save my soul, Ly obviously doesn't know his Bible or simply a bad seed for the Christian community! |
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Jun 11 2007, 02:17 PM
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AF Pro  Group: Members Posts: 1,934 Joined: 25-August 05 From: California, USA |
again, CSVN jailed innocent people and using them as hostages for their own political survival.
why is this not a surprise!? I'm very glad Nguyen Vu Binh is out of the small prison and now lets work to free ALL from the BIG HOUSE! |
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Jun 14 2007, 03:38 PM
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QUOTE(forgeCool @ Jun 11 2007, 01:07 PM) [snapback]2997359[/snapback] Oh ofcourse his legal confinement will proceed accordingly until he has learned best to leave the politic to Caesar and refining his soul to God. As a Christian leader he should know the famous line when Jesus spoke to the Herodians (ie, a 1st century Jewish polical party) when they manipulatively drove Jesus into politic and democracy, "'Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's" The Bible has always called for submission and obedience to political leaders, despite persecution or inequality. But here we have the so called "father" Ly who's using his very own religion falsely leading the people into political activities such as "party formation" !!! Clearly an act of opportunism!! Well unless, joining his Progressive party would save my soul, Ly obviously doesn't know his Bible or simply a bad seed for the Christian community! These guys still wearing ugly T-shirts I wonder they will be worn out soon. Nothing to be pround of to wear these T-shirts made in Hanoi or China with a flag of red devil. |
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Jun 20 2007, 04:22 AM
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QUOTE(ilovepeople @ Jun 14 2007, 03:38 PM) [snapback]3004657[/snapback] These guys still wearing ugly T-shirts I wonder they will be worn out soon. Nothing to be pround of to wear these T-shirts made in Hanoi or China with a flag of red devil. i had one of them shirts but i had to use it to clean up my dogs poo...bad cho! 
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