"VIETNAM'S jailed dissident priest Nguyễn Văn Lý is in deteriorating health after his second stroke this year, his international counsel said on Monday, appealing to authorities to free him. The democracy activist, who was sentenced to eight years in prison in 2007, collapsed from a stroke on Saturday while kneeling to pray and is now paralysed on the right side of his body, said Maran Turner, who represents him overseas.
Authorities took the 63-year-old Catholic priest to a hospital in Hanoi where he is surrounded by five or six guards and not allowed regular contact with his family, she told AFP.
'We are very concerned for Father Lý's welfare and though it seems he is now receiving much needed medical attention, it is vital that Father Lý be released immediately so that he can have consistent medical attention and be with his family without restriction,' she said.
Ms Turner, who is the executive director of Freedom Now, a Washington-based advocacy group for prisoners of conscience, saidLý s family learned belatedly that he also suffered another stroke in July. Lý tried to send a letter about his condition at the time but was not able to, she said.
The priest, who had already been jailed for 14 years since the 1970s, was convicted in 2007 of spreading propaganda against the communist state. He was dragged into the courtroom in handcuffs and tried to shout as a police officer quickly covered his mouth."
source: straitstimes.com
Why CSVN has to protect Father Lý with 5 or 6 men, he's sick CSVN - do you thing he'll escape
or kill you??? Oh boy CSVN you are just idots!
Best wishes for recovering to Father Nguyễn Văn Lý.
