While the EU recently elevated its relationship with Viet Nam to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, civic space within Viet Nam continues to shrink. This repression is no longer contained within Viet Nam’s borders. Recent high-level state visits between Thai and Vietnamese authorities have signaled a dangerous tightening of bilateral security …
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Joint Statement on Viet Nam’s Transnational Repression in Thailand
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Vietnam: Briefing paper for the 14th EU-Vietnam human rights dialogue
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Vietnam: New sentencing of land rights defender Trinh Ba Phuong
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Vietnam: United Nations body highlights gross violations of civil and political rights
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VCHR & FIDH denounce gross Violations of Civil and Political Rights in Vietnam before top UN Human Rights body
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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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »AFP : Vietnam’s top dissident Buddhist monk Thich Huyen Quang dies
Agence France Presse HANOI, 5 July 2008 (AFP) – Thich Huyen Quang, the head of the Vietnamese Buddhist movement that has refused to come under communist government control, died on Saturday aged 87, his supporters said in a statement from Paris. “Most Venerable Thich Huyen Quang, 4th Supreme …
Read More »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 …
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Quê Me Quê Me: Action for democracy in Vietnam & Vietnam Committee on Human Rights



