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Vietnam’s systematic attack on civil society breaches the free trade agreement with the EU, new complaint argues

JOINT PRESS RELEASE International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) Global Witness The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), its member organisation Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR), Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), and Global Witness lodged a complaint with the European …
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Vietnam Committee on Human Rights protests Vietnam’s denial of visa to US Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez

The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights strongly condemns Vietnam’s refusal to grant a visa to US Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez to visit Vietnam. Congresswoman Sanchez, a Democrat who represents “Little Saigon” in Santa Ana (California), the largest Vietnamese community in the United States, and who is currently in Thailand on a …

dpa : U.S. ambassador queries Vietnam’s treatment of Buddhist dissidents

HANOI, Nov 26, 2004 (dpa) – The Unites States ambassador to Vietnam expressed his concern Friday at Vietnam’s treatment of two high-profile Buddhist dissidents. The leaders of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) have been under de facto house arrest, since a run-in with communist authorities last …

AFP : US ambassador criticises Vietnam over treatment of dissident monks

Agence France Presse HANOI, Nov 26 (AFP) – The US ambassador to Vietnam criticised Hanoi Friday for its treatment of the leaders of an outlawed Buddhist church as international concern mounted over religious freedom in the communist nation. Michael Marine, who took up his post in September, said …

AP : Vietnam should relax constraints on dissident monks : U.S. ambassador

Vietnam should allow two elderly Buddhist monks under house arrest to speak and travel freely, and strive to improve the communist country’s overall human rights situation, U.S. Ambassador Michael Marine said Friday in Hanoi. The remarks came after Marine visited the ailing patriarch of the outlawed Unified Buddhist …

dpa : U.S. ambassador queries Vietnam’s treatment of Buddhist dissidents

Reuters : US envoy urges Hanoi to let dissident monks travel

HANOI, Nov 26 (Reuters) – Vietnam should remove travel curbs imposed on two leading monks from a banned Buddhist group so they can meet their followers, the recently appointed U.S. ambassador to Hanoi, Michael Marine, said on Friday. Marine said he had a short meeting this week with …