“Write for Rights'” Mẹ Nấm AKA Mother Mushroom Freed

Although Norfolk County Amnesty International was unable to participate in this year’s Write for Rights, there is good news about one of the cases.  Vietnamese blogger Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh, also known as Mẹ Nấm (Mother Mushroom) was freed in October and is presently living in exile in the United States.

Our peers in Old Greenwich, CT noted Mẹ Nấm’s case was removed from the Write for Rights’ docket “possibly due to the threat of the letter-writing campaign, Helen Rasmussen said.  ‘They get thousands of letters…It’s an international campaign. They come from all over.'”

Mother Mushroom’s move to Houston, TX comes following a prison sentence for documenting human rights abuses in Vietnam.

Photo credit:  U.S. Department of State – https://www.state.gov/s/gwi/iwoc/2017/bio/index.htm