Vietnam Justice Works in Strange Ways
US citizen ‘folk hero’ freed as crackdown on dissidents intensifies
![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9e06184d-d4ed-430b-b975-e81ba3d9c8d7_1024x682.jpeg)
On October 21, the Vietnamese government released Michael Nguyen, a 55-year-old family man from southern California, into the custody of the US Embassy. A day later, back in California after 26-plus months' incarceration, he was reunited with his family back home in Orange County, California's 'Little Saigon,' where according to the Los Angeles Times, h…
Keep reading with a 7-day free trial
Subscribe to Asia Sentinel to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.