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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 Catholic priest who had spent 16 years in prison for rights advocacy activities, was jailed for eight years in March 2007 on charges that he spread propaganda against Vietnam’s communist government.
The group of 37 senators, led by Democrat Barbara Boxer and Republican Sam Brownback, urged President Nguyen Minh Triet to free the 63-year-old cleric, calling his trial “seriously flawed.”
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Father Thadeus Nguyen Van Ly, a Catholic priest who had spent 16 years in prison for rights advocacy activities, was jailed for eight years in March 2007 on charges that he spread propaganda against Vietnam’s communist government.
The group of 37 senators, led by Democrat Barbara Boxer and Republican Sam Brownback, urged President Nguyen Minh Triet to free the 63-year-old cleric, calling his trial “seriously flawed.”
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