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"Symptoms of mental instability suspicious of his 're-education'" "Ho Chi Minh City (AsiaNews) - Father Thadeus Nguyen Van Ly, sentenced to 15 years for speaking out about the persecution of Christians, received a reduction of the term for “good attitude and conduct”. AsiaNews sources in Hué confirm that Fr. Van Ly wrote and signed letters in prison praising Vietnamese socialism and the politics of the Communist Party. According to individuals who were allowed to visit him, the priest showed symptoms of mental imbalance and that he seemed to have been drugged as part of the effort “to re-educate him”. The...

AgapePress) - A pro-family leader says the American treatment of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib may be deplorable, but that it doesn't offset the fact that America has the moral high ground in the war on terror. Meanwhile, a media watchdog group is calling several mainstream news outlets to task for reporting greater outrage over the prison-abuse scandal than for the execution-style murder of a U.S. citizen by Islamic terrorists. The grilling of Pentagon leaders, hearings featuring military leaders, and special congressional sessions to review picture of alleged prisoner abuse have dominated this past week in the nation's capital. Gary...