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On the eve of the 10th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Buddhist leader Thich Quang Do Calls for the Creation of a Free Trade Union to Protect Worker Rights in Vietnam

PARIS, 30th March 2006 (IBIB) – The International Buddhist Information Bureau (IBIB) received today an “Open Letter” from Venerable Thich Quang Do, prominent dissident and Head of the Executive Institute (Vien Hoa Dao) of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV), calling on international labour movements, donor agencies and …

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dpa : Raids on Vietnamese Protestants may draw U.S. protest

    HANOI, Feb 19, 2006 (dpa) – Police in northern Vietnam broke up an evangelical Christian prayer meeting and questioned more than a dozen church leaders as part of a crackdown on “illegal religion,” documents obtained by Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa revealed Sunday. The news came as a US human …

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dpa : Dissident Vietnamese monk released after arrest

    HANOI, Feb 18, 2006 (dpa)- Dissident Buddhist monk Thich Quang Do has been released from Vietnamese police custody after being detained for violating his house arrest, a Paris-based group linked to the monk said Saturday. Vietnamese police have refused to talk about the case since reports of the …

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AFP : Buddhist monk leader said arrested in Vietnam

  Agence France Presse   HANOI, Feb 17, 2006 (AFP) – A leading Buddhist monk was arrested as he tried to visit the head of the dissident Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, who is under house arrest, an exile group in France said Friday. Police arrested the church’s deputy leader, …

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dpa : Vietnamese dissident monk detained by police

    HANOI, Feb 17, 2006 (dpa) – A prominent Vietnamese dissident and Buddhist monk has been detained by local police, a witness who observed the incident said on Friday. Thich Quang Do, the deputy leader of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, was stopped from boarding a train …

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