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Vietnam Justice Works in Strange Ways

US citizen ‘folk hero’ freed as crackdown on dissidents intensifies

Oct 28, 2020
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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…

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