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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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Vietnam Committee on Human Rights condemns unfair prison sentence on Reverend Nguyen Hong Quang

The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights strongly condemns the unfair prison sentence handed down on several members of the banned Vietnamese Evangelical Mennonite Church simply for the peaceful exercise of their religious beliefs. At an unfair trial at the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court on Friday 12 November, which …

AP : Mennonite pastor, five followers sentenced to jail in Vietnam

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 …

Vietnamese Buddhists condemn travel ban on Youth leaders and pledge support for the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam

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 …

AFP : Members of Buddhist youth dissident group in Vietnam banned from traveling

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 …

Vietnam prohibits 21 Buddhist Youth leaders from attending the World Movement of Vietnamese Buddhist Youth Festival in India

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 …

Prominent dissident Thich Quang Do calls on Vietnam to immediately lift the arbitrary detention order on himself and UBCV Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang

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 …