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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10430

30 July 2011
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (ae) eu/vietnam

29/07/2011 (Agence Europe) - Ashton condemns imprisonment of dissident priest. EU High Representative for Foreign Policy Catherine Ashton called on Friday 29 July for the release of Vietnamese Catholic priest and dissident Father Nguyen Van Ly who was arrested on Monday after more than a year of interim release on medical grounds. Ashton repeated the EU's call for “the release of all peaceful advocates of human rights in Vietnam” and regretted “the failure by an otherwise much-valued...