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Neighbouring Streets: Vietnamese Citizenship and Math Lecturer

neighbouring streets: He said three police officers burst into his house on Friday and grabbed his arms when he refused to follow them while wearing only shorts, an undershirt and slippers, according to Metro News. Once outside, I was horrified to see that there were not three, but a hundred policemen in uniform and in plainclothes around my house and in the neighbouring streets, said Hoang, who was a dual French-Vietnamese national before he was stripped of his Vietnamese citizenship last month. Pham Minh Hoang, a 61-year-old math lecturer, recounted his arrest and deportation in a phone interview Sunday with The Associated Press a few hours after his arrival in France. After being detained in front of his wife, Hoang said he was driven to a detention centre two hours away, where he spent 24 hours and was visited by the Consul General of France. Hoang's deportation came two weeks after he learned a presidential decree had revoked his Vietnamese citizenship. He said Vietnamese authorities forced him on a plane to Paris on Saturday night. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.