Recently, to protest against the imprisonment conditions under which she has been held together with some 38 criminal prisoners and was tormented from these prisoners, Lawyer Le has started on December 27, 2007 a hunger strike and thereafter she was moved on January 3, 2008 from Hanoi to province Thanh-Hoa. On the way to the new prison she became unconscious. The Bible, her only consolation source in the prison, which the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) handed her on their visit in the Hanoi prison in October 2007, was confiscated by the prison guard after her arrival in the new prison (Prison Number 5 of the province Thanh-Hoa). She is in the new prison room in Thanh-Hoa together with about 60 criminal prisoners and sleeps on the hard ground without bed and mattress. As the detention of Lawyer Le Thi Cong Nhan is a grave violation of human rights from the Hanoi communist regime and in view of her present fragile health condition, we beg you make a visit to this prisoner of conscience in the prison and demand the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to release her immediately and unconditionally. Yours faithfully, Vietnam Progression Party UPDATE: eloquent letter from John E. Carey, writer based in Washington D.C. Secretary Negroponte: Secure The Release of At Least One Jailed In Vietnam Addresses for Deputy Secretary Negroponte and the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi are included for people to write while he is in China and Vietnam on January 16-20. Further information about Prison Five in the Thanh Hoa Province can be found from a panel at Dartmouth College that included Anh Do, publisher of Nguoi Viet Daily News. http://www.dartcenter.org/dartaward/2002/hm3/10.html    more »