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Vietnam refuses to address serious human rights concerns at UN Universal Periodic Review

GENEVA, 27 September 2024 (VCHR) – Speaking today at the UN Human Rights Council’s 57th session in Geneva on behalf of FIDH and the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR), VCHR President Penelope Faulkner informed the UNthat“reprisals against human rights defenders, the existence of political prisoners, and the repression of …
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US Congress holds Hearing on Human Rights and Religious Freedom Abuses in Vietnam

WASHINGTON, 15 May 2012 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE) – Mr. Vo Van Ai, President of Paris-based Quê Me: Action for Democracy in Vietnam and the Vietnam Committee for Human Rights called on the United States today to press for the release of political prisoners arbitrarily detained in Vietnam. Mr. Ai was speaking …

Threats and restrictions on UBCV Vesak celebrations – Buddhists in Hue prepare non-violent resistance

PARIS, 3 May 2012 (IBIB) – Senior monks from the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) have reported increasing threats and pressure by Security Police and local authorities in the central provinces of Thua Thien-Hue, Quang Nam-Danang, Phu Yen and Binh Thuan to ban the UBCV from organizing celebrations of …

UBCV Supreme Patriarch Thich Quang Do issues Vesak Message

PARIS, May 2, 2012 (IBIB) – On the occasion of the 2556th Vesak, or anniversary of Buddha’s Birth, the Most Venerable Thich Quang Do, Supreme Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) has issued a Message to Vietnamese Buddhists urging them to keep up the spirit of freedom …

Vietnam bans UBCV Vesak celebrations in Binh Thuan – Police surround Giac Minh Pagoda in Danang

PARIS, 28 April 2012 (IBIB) The International Buddhist Information Bureau has received an urgent report from the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) on the intensification of Police controls and harassment in the run-up to the celebrations of the Vesak. The Vesak is the anniversary of the Birth of Buddha …

The Wall Street Journal : Reading Orwell in Hanoi
A judge reminds bloggers how Vietnamese “justice” really works

In further proof that irony is alive and well, Vietnam is a candidate for a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council in 2014-2016. What sort of human-rights watchdog would the government in Hanoi be? For a hint, consider the ongoing cases of three activist bloggers now facing …

Vietnam must free bloggers Dieu Cay, Phan Thanh Hai and Ta Phong Tan

PARIS, 16 April 2012 (VCHR) – The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights calls on the Vietnamese authorities to immediately release bloggers Nguyen Van Hai (pen-name Dieu Cay) Phan Thanh Hai (Anh Ba Saigon) and Ms. Ta Phong Tan (Justice and Truth) and drop all charges against them. The three are …