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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6,000 UBCV monks, nuns and followers attend funeral service for Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang led by Deputy leader Thich Quang Do
PARIS, 11 July 2008 (IBIB) – Despite threats by the authorities, round-the-clock Police surveillance, jamming of cell phones and other harassments, Venerable Thich Quang Do, Deputy leader of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) led a solemn funeral service this morning at the Nguyen Thieu Monastery for the …
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PARIS, 10 July 2008 (IBIB) – As members of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam prepare the funeral ceremony for the late Supreme Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang, to be held at 7.00am on Friday 11th July at the Nguyen Thieu Monastery in Binh Dinh, international protests are mounting against the …
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