Nguyễn Hữu Chánh (Vietnamese pronunciation: [ŋwiən˦ˀ˥ hiw˦ˀ˥ t͡ɕajŋ̟˧˦]; born October 1, 1952) is the Vietnamese-American founder of anti-communist organization Government of Free Vietnam (GFVN), in which he served as its prime minister.
[1][2] In 1975, said to be a member of the "Bao Long Liberators", a democratic organization in Nha Trang, under the leadership of Nguyen Hoang Dan.
In 1982 he secretly fled Vietnam while being pursued by the Vietnamese government for his engagement in the weapon-smuggling activities.
On April 5, 2006, Nguyen Huu Chanh was detained by KNP police officers in Seoul, South Korea, because the Vietnamese government had made a request to the Korean authorities to detain Nguyen Huu Chanh for possible "charges of arms weapon trafficking and acts of terrorism".
The Seoul High Court rejected the Vietnamese request to hand over Chanh, whom the Vietnamese government accused of involvement in failed attempts to bomb its embassy in Thailand and state facilities in Vietnam, including a statue of founding leader Ho Chi Minh, between 1999 and 2001.