HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — Committed to a Vietnamese mental hospital for nearly a year after being diagnosed as “delusional” for believing in God, Than Van Truong was released to his family Sept. 17.
Prosecuting authorities had placed Truong in a high-security section of the Bien Hoa Mental Hospital in Dong Nai province Sept. 30, 2004.
A former officer in the Vietnamese People’s Army, Truong was arrested in May 2003 and imprisoned without charges for nine months. Arrested again in June 2004, Truong was placed in a mental hospital after authorities were unable to charge him with any crimes.
Initially he was heavily injected with unknown drugs and became ill and lethargic. A doctor at the hospital had told his wife that he showed no signs of any mental disorder.
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