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International Women’s Day: the Women Vietnam wants the world to forget

PARIS, 8 March 2024 (VCHR) – As the world celebrates International Women’s Day on 8th March and Vietnam bids for a second term on the UN Human Rights Council, the voices of women calling for change in Vietnam are systematically and arbitrarily suppressed. The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) …
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AP : Dissident Vietnamese monk dies in Vietnam

HANOI, Vietnam, July 5, 2008 (AP) – Thich Huyen Quang, the patriarch of an outlawed Buddhist church in Vietnam who spent more than two decades in and out of house arrest, died Saturday after months of ailing health. He was 87. The leader of the Unified Buddhist Church …

AFP : Thich Huyen Quang, Vietnam’s leading Buddhist dissident

Agence France Presse Buddist monk Thich Huyen Quang (left) holds talks with Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai in 2003. Quang — the 87-year-old leader of the Vietnamese Buddhist movement that has refused to come under government control — has died in Binh Dinh province. (AFP/VNA/File/Str) HANOI, 5 …

UBCV Patriarch passes away at the Nguyen Thieu Monastery in Binh Dinh

PARIS, 5 July 2008 (IBIB) – The International Buddhist Information Bureau is deeply grieved to announce that Most Venerable Thich Huyen Quang, 4th Supreme Patriarch of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church (UBCV) passed away today at the Nguyen Thieu Monastery in Binh Dinh. His death was announced in a Communiquee …

Update on the situation of UBCV Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang: UBCV Patriarch returns to Nguyen Thieu Monastery in Binh Dinh

PARIS, 5 July 2008 (IBIB) – The International Budhist Information Bureau has received the following update from the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) in Binh Dinh province on the situation of Supreme Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang. After he was hospitalised on 27th May 2008 at the Quy Nhon General …

AFP : Vietnam’s top dissident Buddhist monk gravely ill

Agence France Presse HANOI, 04 juil 2008 (AFP) – The leader of the Vietnamese Buddhist movement that has refused to come under the control of the communist government is gravely ill in hospital, his supporters and state media said Friday. Thich Huyen Quang, 87, patriarch of the banned …

“Whilst Thich Quang Do prays for Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang’s life, Hanoi is already planning for his death” – Vo Van Ai protests Hanoi’s political interference into UBCV affairs

PARIS, 3 July 2008 (IBIB) – The International Budhist Information Bureau is shocked and outraged by the news report issued by the official Vietnam News Agency and relayed on 3rd July by several State-run newspapers in Vietnam (Thanh Nien, Hanoi Moi etc) concerning the “imminent funeral” of the Unified Buddhist …