Pham Ngoc Lien.Pham Ngoc Lien, a Vietnamese priest, has been released from prison after 18 years, reports Amnesty International Amnesty International (AI,) human-rights organization founded in 1961 by Englishman Peter Benenson; it campaigns internationally against the detention of prisoners of conscience, for the fair trial of political prisoners, to abolish the death penalty and torture of UK. The 63-year-old Pham was sentenced in 1987 to 20 years plus five years of house arrest for holding religious classes and distributing books without government permission. He was released in an amnesty marking the 30th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War Vietnam War, conflict in Southeast Asia, primarily fought in South Vietnam between government forces aided by the United States and guerrilla forces aided by North Vietnam. . Also released was Le Thi Hong Lien Le Thi Hong Lien is a Christian teacher from Vietnam. She taught for the Mennonite Church in Vietnam. She was arrested in June 2004 along with other members of her church. She was released from Bien Hoa Mental Hospital on April 28, 2005. , a 21-year-old Mennonite who was arrested in 2004 for protesting the government's restrictions on religion. The Mennonite Church Noun 1. Mennonite Church - formed from the Anabaptist movement in the 16th century; noted for its simplicity of life Protestant denomination - group of Protestant congregations is not sanctioned by the Communist authorities. |
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