Nguyen dan que biography
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Nguyễn Đan Quế is a Vietnamese endocrinologist and pro-democracy activist in Saigon.
Nguyễn Đan Quế
In this Vietnamese name, the surname is Nguyễn. In accordance with Vietnamese custom, this person should be referred to by the given name, Quế.
Nguyễn Đan Quế (born 13 April 1942[1]) is a Vietnameseendocrinologist and pro-democracy activist in Saigon.[2][3] He was imprisoned from 1978 to 1988, 1990 to 1998, 2003 to 2005, and briefly in 2011 on state security charges related to his activism.
In 2003, The New York Times described him as "Vietnam's most renowned dissident".[4]
Early life
Quế was born on 13 April 1942 in Hanoi in northern Vietnam, then occupied by the Imperial Japanese Army.
His family, including his mother and five siblings immigrated to Saigon after the Geneva Accords, fleeing communist rule in North Vietnam.[5] He received an M.D. from Saigon University at age 22. In the 1960s and early 70s, he trained in Europe on a United Nations scholarship, specializing in radiotherapy.[1]