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International Women’s Day: the Women Vietnam wants the world to forget

PARIS, 8 March 2024 (VCHR) – As the world celebrates International Women’s Day on 8th March and Vietnam bids for a second term on the UN Human Rights Council, the voices of women calling for change in Vietnam are systematically and arbitrarily suppressed. The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) …
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Happy New Year of the Dragon 2024
VCHR and FIDH expose grave violations of the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in Vietnam
Environmental and Human Rights Defenders in Vietnam spend International Human Rights Day behind bars
VCHR and FIDH submit joint human rights report to the UN for the Universal Periodic Review of Vietnam

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AFP : Buddhist group concerned over escalation of “repression” in Vietnam

Agence France Presse HANOI, Oct 11 (AFP) – The overseas information arm of an outlawed Buddhist church said Saturday it was gravely concerned over an apparent escalation of “repression” by the Vietnamese authorities against its two leaders. The Paris-based International Buddhist Information Bureau (IBIB) called on the international …

AP : Vietnam says monks from banned church illegally set up secret organization

Vietnam on Saturday accused members of a banned Buddhist church of illegally setting up an organization without receiving state permission, obtaining documents that contain state secrets and assaulting authorities. The Paris-based International Buddhist Information Bureau dismissed the allegations as totally absurd, and charged that the communist government was …

Reuters : UPDATE 2-Vietnam monks innocent of secrets charge-group

(Adds details of accusations paragraphs 4-5) HANOI, Oct 11 (Reuters) – A Vietnamese government accusation that two leaders of a banned Buddhist group were carrying state secrets was “totally absurd”, their organisation said on Saturday. Thich Huyen Quang, 86, patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV), and his …

dpa : Dissident Buddhist leaders arrested in Vietnam

Hanoi, October 10 (dpa) – Police have arrested the elderly leaders of a banned Buddhist group in Vietnam, local police said Friday. Thich Huyen Quang, 86, and Thich Quang Do, 75, the leaders of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, were arrested Thursday morning in Luong Son …

AFP : Vietnam says two dissident monks could face house arrest

Agence France Presse HANOI, Oct 10 (AFP) – Vietnam said Friday two senior monks from an outlawed Buddhist church could face house arrest because they were in possession of documents containing state secrets. Foreign ministry spokesman Le Dung said Thich Huyen Quang, patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church …

Reuters : Vietnam says monks found with “state secrets”

HANOI, Oct 10 (Reuters) – Vietnam on Friday accused two leaders of a banned Buddhist group of carrying “state secrets” when their van was stopped by traffic officers while on a key highway from their monastery in central Vietnam. But Hanoi denied the men were arrested, saying that Thich Huyen …