Dissident lawyer freed from Vietnam jail, now in Germany

Berlin (AFP) – Vietnamese lawyer and pro-democracy activist Nguyen Van Dai has been released from jail and has arrived in Germany along with his wife and assistant, the foreign ministry in Berlin said Friday.

Germany greeted the move as “a remarkable humanitarian step and a good signal to the international community”, following months of heightened diplomatic tensions between Berlin and Hanoi.

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