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| Date: | 5 October 1998 |
| Case Number: | vi9430_ngu |
| Victim: | Nguyen Dan Que |
| Country: | Vietnam |
| Subject: | Imprisoned physician released |
| Type of alert: | Update |
| Related alerts: | 4 March 1997; 12 August 1997; 12 May 1998; 19 March 2003; 13 January 2004; 10 August 2004; 14 February 2005 |
FACTS OF THE CASE:
Physician and prisoner of conscience Dr. Nguyen Dan Que was among 5,219 prisoners released during an annual general amnesty on 2 September 1998. Dr. Que, who has spent almost nineteen years in prison, is suffering ill health as a result of an untreated recurring duodenal ulcer.
Arrested for the second time on 14 July 1990, Dr. Que was serving a twenty-year prison sentence for his activities in connection with a manifesto calling for social and economic change in Vietnam. Dr. Que was dismissed from his post as Director of Cho-Ray Hospital in 1978 for his criticism of Vietnam's health care policies. He was later accused of "rebelling against the regime," and detained until 1988, after spending ten years in prison without trial.
Dr. Que has been widely recognized for his contribution to the promotion of human rights. He received the Raoul Wallenberg Human Rights Award in 1994, the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award in 1995, and was recognized at the Science and Human Rights reception during the 1996 AAAS Annual Meeting.
Dr. Que will remain in Vietnam with his family to recuperate.
No further action is requested.
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