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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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Buddhist Youth Leader Le Cong Cau writes to Hanoi leadership protesting arbitrary house arrest

PARIS, 22.04.2014 (IBIB) – Le Cong Cau, leader of the Buddhist Youth Movement (Gia đình Phật tử Việt Nam) and Secretary-general of the Executive Institute of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) has written a letter to Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and …

The Vietnamese Buddhist leader whose temple is his prison – Francis Wade writes on Thich Quang Do in Vietnam

PARIS, 11 April 2014 (IBIB) – In March, Bangkok-based journalist Francis Wade made a trip to Vietnam to document the situation of religious freedom and other issues. During the trip, he visited the Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam Thich Quang Do. We reprint below the article he …

Vietnam: Blogger Pham Viet Dao sentenced to 15 months in prison

PARIS, 19 March 2014 (FIDH & VCHR) – FIDH and its member organization, the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR), strongly condemn the 15-month prison sentence imposed today on blogger Pham Viet Dao. A court in Hanoi sentenced him under Article 258 of the Criminal Code on charges of “abusing …

Vietnam: Free the over 200 imprisoned dissidents

PARIS, 6 March 2014 (FIDH & VCHR) – Vietnam must immediately and unconditionally release the over 200 political prisoners who are languishing in jails across the country, FIDH and its member organization, the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR), said today. In connection with this demand, FIDH and VCHR jointly …

VIETNAM: Another blogger jailed for denouncing human rights violations

PARIS-GENEVA, March 4, 2014. This morning, a court in Danang, central Vietnam, sentenced prominent blogger and human rights defender Truong Duy Nhat to two years in prison under Article 258(2) of the Criminal Code for “abusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the State”. The Observatory for the …

Dissident Nguyen Bac Truyen is brutally beaten by Police

PARIS, 26 February 2014 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE) – The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) is deeply shocked by reports that dissident Nguyen Bac Truyen and his wife Bui Thi Kim Phuong were brutally beaten by Police as they made their way to the Australian Embassy in Hanoi on Monday 24 …