Detention in South Korea
On April 5, 2006, Nguyen Huu Chanh was detained by Korean police officers in Seoul, South Korea, because the communist Vietnamese government had made a request to the Korean authorities to detain Nguyen Huu Chanh for possible “charges of arms weapon trafficking and acts of terrorism”.
Protests in support of Nguyen in the Vietnamese and Korean communities grew throughout the United States and in South Korea for his release. There was a petition presented to the South Korean court that had over 70,000 signatures in support of Nguyen's release.
Nguyen was released from custody at Uiwang, south of Seoul, on Thursday, July 27, 2006. The Seoul High Court rejected the Vietnamese request to hand over Chanh, whom the Vietnamese government accused of involvement in failed attempts to bomb its embassy in Thailand and state facilities in Vietnam, including a statue of founding leader Ho Chi Minh, between 1999 and 2001.
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