Jailed Vietnam blogger ends hunger strike after 5 weeks


  • World
  • Saturday, 03 Aug 2013

HANOI (Reuters) - A Vietnamese dissident jailed for criticising 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 Cay, resumed eating on July 27 after the Supreme People's Procuracy, the prosecutor's office, agreed to look into his claim of abusive treatment.

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