Associated Press A pastor and five followers from a banned Mennonite church in Ho Chi Minh City were sentenced up to three years in prison Friday for obstructing justice, a court official said. The Rev. Nguyen Hong Quang was given three years on charges of “obstructing people carrying …
Read More »Representatives of the Vietnamese Buddhist Youth Movement (Gia Dinh Phat Tu Viet Nam) from the USA, Canada, Europe and Australia gathering in Bodhgaya, India, for the Festival of the World Movement of Vietnamese Buddhist Youth from 7-9 November 2004, issued two Resolutions protesting the Vietnamese government’s ban on 21 Buddhist …
Read More »Agence France Presse HANOI, Nov 4 (AFP) – A group belonging to the banned Vietnamese Buddhist Youth movement has been banned from leaving the country to attend a Buddhist festival abroad, official sources said Thursday. The International Buddhist Information Bureau, an arm of the banned Unified Buddhist Church …
Read More »The International Buddhist Information Bureau (IBIB) is informed that 21 leaders of the Vietnamese Buddhist Youth Movement (Gia Dinh Phat Tu Viet Nam) were intercepted at Tan Son Nhat Airport in Ho Chi Minh City and banned from leaving Vietnam. The Buddhists, all of whom possessed the necessary travel documents …
Read More »The International Buddhist Information Bureau (IBIB) has obtained a copy of a letter sent by Vietnam’s most prominent religious dissident, Venerable Thich Quang Do, 76, to the Vietnamese Communist leadership summoning them to lift the arbitrary “administrative detention” order imposed on himself and the Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church …
Read More »HANOI, Oct 28, 2004 (dpa) – A prominent Buddhist dissident has called on authorities in Vietnam to release him and another religious leader from house arrest, a rights group said Thursday. In a letter sent to leaders in one-party Vietnam, Thich Quang Do called on Vietnam’s prime minister, national assembly …
Read More »A Buddhist monk and leader of a banned church who has been under house arrest for over a year has written to the Vietnamese government demanding his release, a Paris-based Buddhist support group said Thursday. Thich Quang Do, the deputy head of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, …
Read More »Agence France Presse HANOI, Oct 28 (AFP) – One of Vietnam’s most prominent religious dissidents has called on the communist regime to lift the “verbal” house arrest order against himself and the elderly head of his outlawed Buddhist church. In a letter sent Monday to the country’s leadership, …
Read More »Penelope Faulkner : Emma Bonino, you are a former European Commissioner and one of the Members of the European Parliament who has spearheaded this Open Letter to the European Union at the Firth ASEM Summit held in Hanoi on 8-9 October 2004. Can you tell our listeners why you endorsed this …
Read More »EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT “We the undersigned, Members of the European Parliament, are deeply concerned by the Vietnamese government’s decision to separate, for the very first time, the official ASEM Summit and the ASEM People’s Forum, thus excluding civil society and separating Asian and European NGOs from their governments. We …
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