Vietnam release dissident priest

One of Vietnam\'s high-profile human rights activists has been released from prison, five years before the end of his sentence.



Last year Nguyen Van Ly, 63, suffered two strokes that left him partly paralysed.



Since then Western governments have demanded repeatedly that he be freed.



Mr Ly’s nephew told the BBC that his uncle is now back at home in the central city of Hue.



In 2007 father Ly was sentenced to eight years of prison for disseminating anti-government propaganda.



His trial made news headlines as he tried to read out a poem criticizing Vietnam\'s communist authorities and was muzzled by police.