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At the 61st Session of the UN Commission Human Rights : Vo Van Ai denounces Vietnam’s secret service GD2 and reveals a Communist Party instruction manual on religious repression

April 5, 2005 VCHR 0

PALAIS DES NATIONS, GENEVA, 5 April 2005 (VCHR) – Speaking at the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva today, Mr. Vo Van Ai, President of the Paris-based Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) and Vice-President of the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) condemned the institutionalisation of State repression …

AFP : Detained Vietnamese dissident urges democracy in smuggled message

April 5, 2005 Press Review 0

Agence France Presse GENEVA, Apr 5, 2005 (AFP) – Leading Vietnamese dissident Thich Quang Do said in a message smuggled out of Vietnam Tuesday that the government could not hold back the peaceful struggle for democracy in the country. A transcript of the «secret» message from the Buddhist …

Reuters : Vietnam dissident monk makes rare public plea

April 5, 2005 Press Review 0

GENEVA, Apr 5 (Reuters) A leader of a banned Vietnamese Buddhist group pleaded today for an end to religious and political persecution in his country in a rare public message smuggled to the U.N.’s top human rights body. In a taped recording made secretly at the Saigon monastery …

AFP : Exile group says Buddhist monk arrested in Vietnam

March 31, 2005 Press Review 0

HANOI, March 31 (AFP) – A Buddhist monk was arrested in Ho Chi Minh City after he visited the deputy leader of the dissident Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, an exile group based in France said Thursday. Thich Vien Phuong was held Wednesday after he left the Thanh …

Message from Very Venerable Thich Quang Do to the UN Commission on Human Rights

March 31, 2005 Resources, UBCV, Videos 0

This Message by the Very Venerable Thich Quang Do, Deputy leader of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, is addressed to the 61st Session of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights in Geneva. It was originally recorded on video, filmed secretly at the Thanh Minh Zen Monastery in Saigon …

UBCV monk Thich Vien Phuong is arrested after visiting Thich Quang Do – Communist authorities press Thich Huyen Quang to receive Thich Nhat Hanh in Binh Dinh

March 30, 2005 IBIB, News, Press Release 0

The International Buddhist Information Bureau (IBIB) has received urgent information from the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) that UBCV Buddhist monk Thich Vien Phuong was arrested in Saigon by Security Police today (Wednesday 30th March 30th) at 5.30 pm Vietnam time. Security Police arrested him on his motorbike …

Buddhist monk Thich Thien Minh is victim of harassments and death threats
UBCV Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang declines to meet Thich Nhat Hanh in Binh Dinh

March 25, 2005 IBIB, News, Press Release 0

PARIS, 25 March 2005 (IBIB) – Buddhist monk Thich Thien Minh, member of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) released in a government amnesty after 26 years in re-education camp, sent an urgent communication to the International Buddhist Information Bureau (IBIB) this morning reporting that he is the victim …

Cuộc du lịch hành lang của Phái ðoàn Quốc hội Việt Nam Cộng sản tại Quốc hội Châu Âu

March 19, 2005 Photos 0

Thich Thien Minh calls on the United States to maintain Vietnam on the list of worst religious freedom offenders

February 28, 2005 IBIB 0

Buddhist monk Thich Thien Minh, 51, member of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam released in a government amnesty on 2 February 2005 after 26 years in re-education camp has sent an “Petition” to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) denouncing grave abuses of religious freedom in …

Buddhist Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang calls for freedom of movement for Thich Quang Do and the lifting of “verbal” house arrest orders

February 23, 2005 IBIB 0

The Most Venerable Thich Huyen Quang, 86, prominent dissident and Fourth Supreme Patriarch of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV), has sent an “Open Letter” to the Vietnamese leadership denouncing recent harassments of UBCV monks, and condemning the unlawful detention of UBCV Deputy leader Venerable Thich Quang Do …