Jailed Vietnam blogger ends hunger strike after five weeks

reutersSat Aug 3, 2013 4:21am

HANOI (Reuters) – A Vietnamese dissident jailed for criticizing the country’s rulers has ended a hunger strike after five weeks when judicial authorities agreed to accept his complaint about poor treatment, his son said on Saturday.

Nguyen Van Hai, better known as Dieu Ca, resumed eating on July 27 after the Supreme People’s Procuracy, the prosecutors office, agreed to look into his claim of abusive treatment.

The hunger strike has focused attention on Vietnam’s harsh treatment of activists and bloggers, who face intimidation and long prison terms for what authorities call abuses of their constitutional right to free speech. Continue Reading…