{"id":80708,"date":"2018-07-22T09:34:10","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T13:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80708"},"modified":"2018-07-22T09:34:10","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T13:34:10","slug":"william-nguyen-to-be-deported-from-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80708","title":{"rendered":"William Nguyen to be deported from Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=80561\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-80561\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/will-nguyen-trial-300x265.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"265\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-80561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/will-nguyen-trial-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/will-nguyen-trial-377x333.jpg 377w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/will-nguyen-trial.jpg 521w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A few days ago we talked about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80560\">William Nguyen<\/a> who was arrested in Vietnam for participating in a protest against the Vietnamese government. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/vietnam-convicts-deports-us-man-joined-rare-protest-052132334.html\">Associated Press<\/a> reports that the court convicted him and ordered him deported;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A court official said that Nguyen, who is of Vietnamese descent, admitted to the violation and showed remorse, which resulted in a lenient sentence. He had faced up to seven years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted later Friday that he was &#8220;tremendously pleased&#8221; Nguyen would be returning home to his family.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department had previously said Pompeo had raised Nguyen&#8217;s case while meeting with Vietnamese officials during his visit to Hanoi earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrations in communist Vietnam are uncommon and often broken up by plainclothes police.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, Nguyen lucked out. His mother had fled the country in 1979, you&#8217;d have thought that he would know better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago we talked about William Nguyen who was arrested in Vietnam for participating &hellip; <a title=\"William Nguyen to be deported from Vietnam\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80708\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">William Nguyen to be deported from Vietnam<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-teh-stoopid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}