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The EU should raise serious human rights concerns with Vietnamese Premier Tô Lâm during visit to Brussels

PARIS, 19 October 2026 (VCHR) – Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) joined with 12 international human rights organisations in urging the European Union to raise serious human rights concerns with Vietnamese President and Secretary-general of the Communist Party Tô Lâm during his visit to Brussels on 22 October. In …
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AFP : US calls on Vietnam to let UNHCR have access to jailed Buddhist

Agence France Presse HANOI, Mar 17, 2004 (AFP) – The United States urged the Vietnamese government to grant the United Nations (news – web sites) refugee agency access to a Buddhist dissident jailed for 20 months for undermining internal security. Pham Van Tuong was found guilty on March …

Security Police threaten to expel Buddhist monks and cut off electricity at Giac Hoa Pagoda in Saigon for supporting the banned UBCV

The International Buddhist Information Bureau (IBIB) has received an urgent appeal for help from Venerable Thich Vien Dinh, Superior monk of Giac Hoa Pagoda in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). He reports that the Security Police and authorities threaten to expel 40 resident Buddhist monks and cut off the electricity …

Buddhist Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang calls on all Vietnamese Buddhists to unite in the non-violent struggle for the survival of Buddhism

70 delegations of senior monks, nuns and lay-Buddhists representing sections of the Vietnamese American Unified Buddhist Congress in the USA (VAUBC-USA), leaders of the Buddhist Youth Movement and representatives of 36 organizations of the Vietnamese community and media from all over the United States, Canada and Europe gathered in San …

U.S. Ambassador Raymond Burghardt visits UBCV Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang in Binh Dinh

At 10.50 a.m. this morning (28, April 2004), U.S. Ambassador Raymond Burghardt paid a visit to the Most Venerable Thich Huyen Quang, Patriarch of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) at the Nguyen Thieu Monastery in Binh Dinh Province, where the 86-year-old UBCV leader is currently under house …

AP : U.S. ambassador meets with head of outlawed Vietnam church

The U.S. ambassador to Vietnam met Wednesday with the patriarch of an outlawed Vietnamese Buddhist church who is under virtual house arrest, the embassy said. Ambassador Raymond Burghardt “met this morning with Thich Huyen Quang for an hour-long private conversation,” said embassy spokesman Tom Carmichael. He gave no …

Senior UBCV monks send Petition to the Vietnamese government calling for the release of Thich Huyen Quang, Thich Quang Do and detained UBCV leaders

The International Buddhist International Information Bureau (IBIB) has received a copy of a forceful Petition sent to Vietnamese President Tran Duc Luong and Prime Minister Phan Van Khai by two senior dignitaries of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) calling for the release of UBCV monks arrested in …