Vietnam re-arrests ailing dissident priest Van Ly

One of Vietnam's best-known dissidents, Catholic priest Nguyen Van Ly, has been re-arrested more than a year after getting medical leave from prison. tiffany bracelet Sources told journalists he had been escorted by police from a church in the Hue area of central Vietnam. The government said he had been distributing anti-government writings. His eight-year prison sentence for subversion had been suspended in March of last year to allow him to seek treatment for a brain tumour. The condition of his health was not clear following news of his re-arrest on Monday. tiffany necklace on sale Fr Ly, who is in his 60s, suffered two strokes in 2009 that left him partly paralysed, and Western governments had demanded repeatedly that he be freed. His original trial made news headlines as he tried to read out a poem criticising Vietnam's communist authorities and was muzzled by police. He has spent more than 15 years in prison since 1977. In 2009 a group of 37 US senators wrote to Vietnam's President Nguyen Minh Triet, calling for the priest's release. Ugg Stripe Cable Knit The Roman Catholic clergyman was a founding member of Bloc 8406, a pro-democracy movement launched in 2006. A Taiwanese army general has been jailed for life for selling military secrets to China. Defence officials said Maj Gen Lo Hsien-che was recruited as a spy for China in 2004, while he was posted to Thailand as a military attache. Prosecutors said he had confessed to the crime, so they had not sought the death penalty. Pandora Charms Gen Lo - the highest-ranking officer involved in espionage in decades - was arrested in January. He was recruited by China while he was stationed in Thailand between 2002 and 2005. Officials refused to give details of the secrets Gen Lo passed to Beijing, but local media reported he leaked information about a command, communications and control network that Taiwan was establishing with the US. Taiwan's defence ministry said his activities harmed Taiwan's interests and security, and had a big impact on the military's reputation and morale. cheap tiffany accessories At the time of his arrest, he was head of the military command's communications and information office. Maj Gen Lo is the most senior Taiwanese officer accused of espionage since the 1960s when a vice-defence minister was arrested amid a crackdown on communist spies. Taiwan and China have been governed separately since the end of the civil war in 1949. China sees Taiwan as part of its territory and has threatened to use force if the island ever moved to declare formal independence. tiffany rings
Par bunny0025 le mercredi 27 juillet 2011

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