One of Vietnam’s high-profile political prisoners refused amnesty. Prison guards forced him on a plane anyway

For almost 16 years Tran Huynh Duy Thuc sat in prison waiting for freedom.

On September 20 he was told he could go home to his family after Vietnam’s President To Lam pardoned him just eight months before his sentence was up.

But Mr Thuc refused to leave.

The 57-year-old human rights activist said…