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Joint Statement on Viet Nam’s Transnational Repression in Thailand

While the EU recently elevated its relationship with Viet Nam to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, civic space within Viet Nam continues to shrink. This repression is no longer contained within Viet Nam’s borders. Recent high-level state visits between Thai and Vietnamese authorities have signaled a dangerous tightening of bilateral security …
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Vietnam: Briefing paper for the 14th EU-Vietnam human rights dialogue
Vietnam: New sentencing of land rights defender Trinh Ba Phuong
Vietnam: United Nations body highlights gross violations of civil and political rights
VCHR & FIDH denounce gross Violations of Civil and Political Rights in Vietnam before top UN Human Rights body

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ABC Radio : Vietnam accused of human rights breach over detention of church leader

A United Nations human rights agency says Vietnamese authorities are wrongfully holding the head of an outlawed Buddhist church who has been under house arrest for almost two years. The UN Working Group of Arbitrary Detention says the detention of Thich Huyen Quang, as well as his deputy …

AFP : UN body criticises Vietnam’s detention of Buddhist leaders

Agence France Presse GENEVA, July 7 (AFP) – Vietnamese authorities are wrongfully holding the head of an outlawed Buddhist church who has been under house arrest for almost two years, a United Nations human rights body said Thursday. The UN Working Group of Arbitrary Detention said that the …

AFP : UN body criticises Vietnam’s detention of Buddhist leaders – ADDS Vietnam official reax

The United Nations pronounces Thich Huyen Quang and Thich Quang Do victims of arbitrary detention and calls for their immediate release

PARIS, 6 July 2005 (VCHR) – A key United Nations’ monitoring body, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, has pronounced two of Vietnam’s most prominent dissidents, the Patriarch of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) Thich Huyen Quang and his deputy, Venerable Thich Quang Do to be …

AFP : Malaysia to demolish memorial built by Vietnamese boat people : appeal from diaspora group

Agence France Presse KUALA LUMPUR, June 30 (AFP) – Malaysia is to demolish a memorial built by former Vietnamese boat people on a northern island where they were interned in the 1970s, reports said Thursday. Officials in northern Terengganu state said the construction had never been approved and …

As Vietnamese Prime Minister visits President George W. Bush at the White House : Vietnam intercepts UBCV monks on their way to visit Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang

The International Buddhist Information Bureau (IBIB) has received urgent information from the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) that a delegation of UBCV monks from Hue was intercepted this morning by Security Police as they sought to pay a visit to UBCV Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang at the Nguyen Thieu …