Viet Nam: Further information: Ill Catholic priest returned to prison

Index Number: ASA 41/011/2009
Date Published: 21 December 2009
Categories: Viet Nam

Prisoner of conscience Father Nguyen Van Ly was returned to prison from hospital on 11 December: he had not fully recovered from a stroke. He is partially paralysed on one side. The prison authorities are not providing him with adequate medical care, and his health is in danger.