RFA
Dissident Vietnamese blogger Nguyen Tuong Thuy is seriously ill in detention ahead of his scheduled Jan. 5 trial, Nguyen’s wife said Thursday, citing the harsh conditions in which he is being held in close confinement.
Thuy, a former vice president of the Vietnam Independent Journalists Association who had blogged for RFA’s Vietnamese Service, is now “aching all over his body, especially on his left hand,” Thuy’s wife Pham Thi Lan told RFA.
“He is in so much pain,” Pham said, following a Thursday visit to Thuy at his detention center in Ho Chi Minh City by lawyer Nguyen Van Mieng, who informed her of her husband’s condition.