Asia - Voice of America: Mother of Detained Vietnamese Blogger Self-Immolates

Asia - Voice of America asia

Mother of Detained Vietnamese Blogger Self-Immolates Jul 30th 2012, 19:51 A Vietnamese rights group says the mother of a prominent jailed blogger has died after setting herself on fire in protest of her daughter's detention. Self-immolation is a rare act of dissent in Vietnam, whose Communist leaders exercise tight control over society. The Vietnamese Redemptorist News (VRN) network says the mother, Dang Thi Kim Lieng, set fire to herself Monday morning near a local government office in the southern city of Bac Lieu. The Christian organization says the woman, ...

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