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Thai ‘pressure’ to stop rights event on Vietnam: media group

BANGKOK, 13 September 2010 (AFP) – Thailand has threatened to deny visas to activists attending a Vietnamese human rights conference amid “pressure” to cancel the event, a journalist group said Sunday. Authorities said that while Thailand attached “great importance” to freedom of expression, it would not allow “activities detrimental to …

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As tensions rise over Chinese claims of sovereignty on the Paracel and Spratly islands: Buddhist dissident Thich Quang Do calls for democratic rights and freedoms to guarantee territorial integrity in Vietnam

PARIS, 28th December 2007 (IBIB) – In the wake of widespread demonstrations staged by students and young people outside Chinese Embassies in Hanoi and Saigon, and strong protests by the Vietnamese community overseas, the Most Venerable Thich Quang Do, prominent dissident and Deputy leader of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church …

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Al Jazeera : Vietnam’s dissident monk

Though he is 80 years old, Buddhist Monk Thich Quang Do is still one of Vietnam’s most prominent dissidents. He is deputy leader of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam and has spent more than 25 years in detention for advocating greater religious freedoms and rights. In video tapes …

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