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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.
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| Sources said Fr Ly was escorted by police from a church in 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.
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.
The Roman
Catholic clergyman was a founding member of Bloc 8406, a pro-democracy movement
launched in 2006.
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