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DPA : Vietnam denies banning Buddhist patriarch from hospital visit

    HANOI, January 4, 2007 (dpa) – Vietnam on Thursday denied a report that provincial authorities have forbidden the ailing patriarch of a banned Buddhist sect from travelling to Ho Chi Minh City for a medical examination. The government dismissed as a “total fabrication” a claim that security police …

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AFP : Vietnam denies Buddhist dissident’s hospital visit : supporters

Agence France Presse HANOI, Jan 4, 2007 (AFP) – Vietnamese police have prevented the 87-year-old leader of a banned Buddhist organisation from visiting his hospital for a medical checkup, a Paris-based pro-democracy group said on Thursday. Thich Huyen Quang, patriarch of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV), was …

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Security Police forbid UBCV Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang to travel to Saigon for hospital visit – Nobel laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire nominates Thich Quang Do for 2007 Nobel Peace prize

The International Buddhist Information Bureau (IBIB) is informed by the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) that Security Police in Binh Dinh province have prohibited UBCV Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang from travelling to Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) for medical examinations at the Franco-Vietnamese hospital. In October 2006, the 87-year …

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The Daily Telegraph : Vietnam dissident accuses Bush of betrayal

Ho Chi Minh City, 27 November 2006 – Vietnam’s leading dissident yesterday accused America of betrayal after Washington took the Communist state off a list of countries of concern over religious freedom. Thich Quang Do, 77, is deputy leader of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam. He spent more …

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