Vietnam Sentences Degar Christian to 5 Years for refusal to sign religious renunciation documents

Update: An Abducted and detained Degar Christian villager named Y-Huong Nie was given 5 year prison term for refusing to sign a document renouncing his religious beliefs on 4 July 2011. Y-Huong Nie, was abducted by security police on September 15, 2010 has been in prison in Dak Lak province ever since. He was sentenced to five years imprisonment for practicing Christianity in a so called ‘illegal house church” and his repeated refusal to sign documents (even while being tortured by authorities) that renounced his religious beliefs. His relatives were prohibited from visiting him during his imprisonment despite continuously asking Vietnamese authorities about his welfare.