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Vietnam: New sentencing of land rights defender Trinh Ba Phuong

The Observatory has been informed about the second conviction and prison sentence of imprisoned land rights defender Mr Trinh Ba Phuong. Mr Ba Phuong has campaigned against land grabbing and to highlight its impact on small-scale farmers across the country, along with his mother Ms Can Thi Theu and brother …
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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
New Report on Violations of Civil and Political Rights in Vietnam
Emmanuel Macron’s official visit to Vietnam: Civil society organisations call on the President to take action on human rights

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Security Police prevent Thich Quang Do from visiting Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang and forcibly escort him back to Ho Chi Minh City

The International Buddhist Information Bureau (IBIB) has received further reports on the new crackdown on the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV). Venerable Thich Quang Do, 76, prominent dissident and Deputy leader of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) was forcibly prevented today from traveling to Binh …

Police intercept Buddhist delegation on its way to take Thich Quang Do to visit the UBCV Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang in Quy Nhon

The International Buddhist Information Bureau (IBIB) has received urgent information that Police have intercepted a mini-van with Venerable Thich Vien Dinh and nine other UBCV members at 5.30 am (Vietnam time) as they drove towards the Thanh Minh Zen Monastery in Ho Chi Minh City. The monks were going to …

AFP : Dissident Vietnamese monk in tense stand-off with police

Agence France Presse HANOI, Nov 22 (AFP) – One of Vietnam’s most prominent religious dissidents was prevented by police Monday from visiting the gravely ill patriarch of an outlawed Buddhist church, triggering a tense roadside stand-off. The vehicle transporting Thich Quang Do, the deputy head of the Unified …

AP : U.S. officials meet monks from banned Vietnam Buddhist church

U.S. diplomats met with leaders of an outlawed Buddhist church in Vietnam over the weekend, the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi said Monday. It was the first diplomatic visit Vietnam’s government has allowed the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam’s deputy leader, Thich Quang Do, in more than a year, …