Will Nguyen; American arrested in Vietnam

Reuters reports that Will Nguyen, an American citizen of Vietnamese extraction, has been arrested in Vietnam for participation in protests against the communist government;

The police statement cited the indictment as saying that Nguyen incited people to protest and tried to overturn a police truck in the city, Vietnam’s economic hub.

His lawyer is not immediately available for comment.

Nguyen’s sister, Victoria Nguyen, said in a letter sent to the Department of State earlier this month that her brother was not violent and was a man of integrity.

“I think we all understand that he is being condemned for something that we all know is our universal birth right: freedom of speech and expression,” Victoria Nguyen said.

Yeah, who would have thought that a communist government would arrest people who speak freely?

Nguyen is a grad student at the National University of Singapore, now he’s worried because he is supposed to graduate this month.

From CNN;

Nguyen was arrested after he asked officers to move police vehicles blocking the crowd’s path, authorities said.

When “his request was not met,” Nguyen climbed on a police car urging others to cross through, VNA reported.

He may be book smart, but he’s not street smart.

Of course, it’s Trump’s fault he’ll be standing trial later this week, according to his sister;

While Secretary Pompeo concluded his visit without commenting publicly on this case, Heather Nauert, State Department spokesperson, said in a brief statement Monday that Pompeo discussed the case with Vietnamese leaders.

But the family of Nguyen, an American of Vietnamese descent, worry that may not be enough.

Victoria Nguyen, William’s sister, has spearheaded a social media campaign titled ‘Free Will Nguyen’ in the weeks since her brother’s arrest. She had hoped that Pompeo’s visit would conclude with Nguyen’s release, and she is upset that this was not the case.

“The most important part is that the State Department refused to demand his release,” she told ThinkProgress via Facebook Messenger. “Human rights are blatantly being ignored.”

Oh,no! It’s the first time in human history that a communist government ignored human rights.

The phony Vietnam War veteran, demands that Vietnam release Nguyen;

2 wks ago, Will Nguyen was celebrating his college reunion w/friends at Yale. Today, he's been unjustly&brutally detained in Vietnam w/o charge or cause. I'm calling on the Vietnamese government to release Will immediately&I’m working w/State to secure his freedom. #freewilly https://t.co/EynW0ause1

— Richard Blumenthal (@SenBlumenthal) June 16, 2018

Nguyen was forced to make a public apology, according to the Washington Post;

On Tuesday, the Agence France-Presse reported that Nguyen confessed on state-controlled television.

“I understand that my acts violated [the law] .?.?. I regret that I caused trouble for people heading to the airport. I blocked traffic and caused trouble to my family and friends,” Nguyen said, according to the report. Vietnamese authorities have been accused by human-rights groups of extracting forced public confessions, the AFP reported.

William and Victoria’s mother, Vicky, fled Saigon four years after Vietnamese communist forces captured the city in 1975 and settled in Houston, Victoria Nguyen said. Their fraught family history inspired William Nguyen to study Vietnam at Yale University and to visit the country numerous times.

Extra dumbass points are awarded for returning to a country his mother fled.

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