Agence France Presse HANOI, July 12 (AFP) – A leading Buddhist dissident in Vietnam on Tuesday urged the United Nations to visit the communist country and monitor what he called human rights abuses. Thich Quang Do, the deputy leader of the outlawed Buddhist church in Vietnam, called on …
Read More »SANTIAGO, CHILE – Addressing the 3rd Ministerial Meeting of the Community of Democracies in Santiago, Chile from 28-30 April 2005, Vo Van Ai, President of the Vietnam Committee for Human Rights and Que Me : Action for Democracy in Vietnam, called on democratic governments around the world “to support a process …
Read More »Representatives of the Vietnamese Buddhist Youth Movement (Gia Dinh Phat Tu Viet Nam) from the USA, Canada, Europe and Australia gathering in Bodhgaya, India, for the Festival of the World Movement of Vietnamese Buddhist Youth from 7-9 November 2004, issued two Resolutions protesting the Vietnamese government’s ban on 21 Buddhist …
Read More »A Buddhist monk and leader of a banned church who has been under house arrest for over a year has written to the Vietnamese government demanding his release, a Paris-based Buddhist support group said Thursday. Thich Quang Do, the deputy head of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, …
Read More »HANOI, April 8, 2003 (dpa) – Large crowds of flower-bearing monks and followers greeted the elderly patriarch of a banned Buddhist sect when he made a rare visit to the central Vietnamese city of Hue, an eyewitness and religious sources said Tuesday. More than 1,000 people greeted Venerable Thich Huyen …
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