Detained RFA Blogger in Vietnam Has First Meeting With Lawyer
An RFA blogger held in Vietnam on charges of corruption has been allowed to meet with a lawyer for the first time since he was abducted in Thailand earlier this year and forced back to Vietnam, his attorney told RFA on Thursday.
Truong Duy Nhat, a weekly contributor to RFA’s Vietnamese Service, disappeared in Bangkok in late January amid fears he had been seized by Vietnamese agents, and two months later was revealed to be under arrest in Hanoi.
Speaking on Aug. 29 to RFA’s Vietnamese Service, attorney Ngo Anh Tuan said he had met with Nhat at the T16 camp of the Ministry of Public Security the day before after being told he could speak with his client only in the presence of a police investigator, who would monitor their conversation.
