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Vietnam: New sentencing of land rights defender Trinh Ba Phuong

The Observatory has been informed about the second conviction and prison sentence of imprisoned land rights defender Mr Trinh Ba Phuong. Mr Ba Phuong has campaigned against land grabbing and to highlight its impact on small-scale farmers across the country, along with his mother Ms Can Thi Theu and brother …
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Vietnam: United Nations body highlights gross violations of civil and political rights
VCHR & FIDH denounce gross Violations of Civil and Political Rights in Vietnam before top UN Human Rights body
New Report on Violations of Civil and Political Rights in Vietnam
Emmanuel Macron’s official visit to Vietnam: Civil society organisations call on the President to take action on human rights

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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 …

As the U.S. President meets Vietnamese Prime Minister in Washington DC: President Bush should urge Vietnamese PM to legalise banned Buddhist Church and allow gravely ill UBCV Patriarch to receive medical treatment in Saigon

PARIS, 24 June 2008 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RIGHTS) – As the Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung embarked on a 4-day official visit in the United States from 23-26 June, and will be received at the White House by U.S. President George W. Bush today, Mr. Vo Van Ai, …

UBCV Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang is in hospital in Binh Dinh

PARIS, 31 May 2008 (IBIB) – The International Budhist Information Bureau is informed that the Supreme Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) Thich Huyen Quang is seriously ill. He was admitted to the General Hospital in Quy Nhon on 27th May suffering from breathing problems due to …

Security Police intensify harassment of UBCV monks in Lam Dong – UBCV monk Thich Tri Khai is still missing

PARIS, 28 May 2008 (IBIB) – The International Budhist Information Bureau has received an urgent appeal from the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) following serious harassments and intimidation by Security Police against UBCV monks in Lam Dong Province. On Tuesday (27.5.2008), Security Police surrounded the Su Tu Hong Pagoda …

As Vietnam hosts the UN Day of the Vesak in Hanoi, UBCV monk Thich Tri Khai is arrested – In Vesak Messages, Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang and Thich Quang Do urge Buddhists to stand up for human rights

PARIS, 13 May 2008 (IBIB) – The International Budhist Information Bureau is deeply concerned by the disappearance and likely arrest of Buddhist monk Thich Tri Khai, Superior monk of Giac Hai Pagoda in Lam Dong province and member of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV). After Security Police …