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On the recordMay 13, 2015
The people of Vietnam are living under a brutal Communist regime, which is imprisoning thousands of political dissidents, prisoners of conscious, and ethnic and religious minorities.
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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Republican · Florida

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Ros-Lehtinen criticizes Vietnam's government for human rights abuses.

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