Topic: Thadeus Nguyen Van Ly

US pressures Vietnam to release dissident priest

San Francisco Chronicle - 208 days ago
0 . The U.S. government and international rights groups have called on Vietnam to immediately release a dissident priest suffering from a brain ...

Vietnam's Temporary Release of Priest Goes against Trend

Crosswalk - 686 days ago
Vietnamese officials have in recent months tightened control over those they regard as dissidents, and the temporary release of Catholic priest Thadeus Nguyen van Ly on March 15 was a rare exception, according to Amnesty International (AI). An outspoken advocate for religious ...

37 senators seek freedom for Vietnamese priest

AP News - 963 days ago
37 senators ask Vietnam's president to free dissident Roman Catholic priestThirty-seven U.S. senators are asking Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet to release a dissident Roman Catholic priest serving prison and house arrest terms totaling 13 years.In a letter sent ...

CORRECTION: U.S. senators press Vietnam on jailed priest

Reuters US Online Report Politics News - 963 days ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of U.S. senators urged Vietnam's president on Wednesday to free a Catholic priest as human rights groups said his imprisonment justified putting Hanoi on a U.S. religious freedom blacklist.Father Thadeus Nguyen Van Ly, a ...