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URGENT APPEAL – THE OBSERVATORY (Le Quoc Quan)

VNM 001 / 0113 / OBS 001 Incommunicado detention / Judicial harassment Viet Nam January 4, 2013 The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your urgent intervention in the …

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The Most Venerable Thich Ho Giac has passed away

PARIS, 30.11.2012 (IBIB) – The International Buddhist Information Bureau is sad to announce that the Most Venerable Thich Ho Giac, Deputy Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) died at the Phap Luan Temple in Houston, Texas at 6.19am on Wednesday 5 December 2012 at the end of …

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Elderly women pray at a Buddhist pagoda in downtown Hanoi, Aug. 20, 2010 (Photo AFP)

Radio Free Asia – New Law Limits Religious Freedom

A rights group says new rules in Vietnam give the state more power to curb religious freedom. Radio Free Asia (RFA), 2012-11-29 Elderly women pray at a Buddhist pagoda in downtown Hanoi, Aug. 20, 2010 (Photo AFP) A new decree on religion in Vietnam gives the one-party communist state greater …

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