PARIS, 30th May 2007 (Quê Me) – Quê Me : Action for Democracy in Vietnam and the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights welcome U.S. President George W. Bush’s meeting with four Vietnamese-American democracy activists at the White House yesterday to discuss concerns on human rights and democracy in Vietnam. The meeting, …
Read More »PARIS, 30th May 2007 (IBIB) – Whereas Buddhists around the world are preparing to celebrate the 2551st Anniversary of the Birth of Buddha, or Vesak, tomorrow, 31st May 2007, the Vietnamese authorities have banned the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) from celebrating this important Buddhist event and prohibited circulation …
Read More »PARIS, 11 May 2007 (Vietnam Committee) – The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights is deeply disturbed by the extremely harsh prison sentences handed down today against human rights lawyers Nguyen van Dai and Le Thi Cong Nhan, and against other dissidents in the unfair trials of 10 and 11 May …
Read More »The official Police Review, “An Ninh The Gioi”, (World Public Security, No. 651, 5.5.2007) has published a front-page article on a visit by Vice-Minister of Public Security Nguyen Van Huong to the Most Venerable Thich Huyen Quang, 87, Patriarch of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) on the …
Read More »LISBON, 24 April 2007 (VCHR) – Members of 141 leagues from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe, meeting in Lisbon, Portugal from 22-24 April 2007 for the 36th Congress of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) adopted two resolutions condemning violations of human rights in Vietnam. In an …
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PARIS, 23 April 2007 (VCHR) – As high-level American and Vietnamese officials prepare to meet in Washington D.C. for the U.S.-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue tomorrow (24 April 2007), the Paris-based International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) and the Geneva-based World Organization against Torture (OMCT), released a groundbreaking report today on …
Read More »HANOI Vietnam, April 10, 2007 (AP) – One of Vietnam’s leading dissidents is disappointed that U.S. President George W. Bush has not taken a stronger stance against the communist government’s human rights abuses, a Buddhist organization said Tuesday. Thich Quang Do, a dissident monk who lives under virtual house arrest, …
Read More »HANOI, 10 April 2007 (Reuters) – U.S. officials have visited a dissident Buddhist monk under house arrest as Washington applies pressure on communist-run Vietnam to release political and religious activists. The delegation visited Thich Quang Do of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) on Monday, four days after …
Read More »Eric John speaks to reporters in Hanoi, 10 Apr 2007 Hanoi, 10 April 2007 (VOA) – A senior U.S. diplomat has visited Vietnamese dissident Buddhist monk Thich Quang Do in the pagoda in Ho Chi Minh City where he is under house arrest. U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of …
Read More »HANOI, 9 April 2007 (AFP) – A US State Department delegation on Monday paid a rare visit to a dissident Buddhist leader who is under “pagoda arrest” in communist Vietnam, the monk’s overseas supporters said. The reported visit comes as pressure is rising in Washington for Vietnam, a former US …
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