News

UBCV Deputy leader Thich Quang Do sends message of solidarity and condolence to Hoa Hao Buddhists in Vietnam

PARIS, 10 August 2005 (IBIB) – Venerable Thich Quang Do, Deputy leader of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) has sent a message of solidarity to the Hoa Hao Buddhist sect (1) following the self-immolation of two of its members in a protest against religious persecution. According to Hoa …

Read More »

AFP : Buddhist dissident urges UN to check Vietnam ‘rights abuses’

  Agence France Presse   HANOI, July 12 (AFP) – A leading Buddhist dissident in Vietnam on Tuesday urged the United Nations to visit the communist country and monitor what he called human rights abuses. Thich Quang Do, the deputy leader of the outlawed Buddhist church in Vietnam, called on …

Read More »

UBCV Deputy leader Thich Quang Do calls for UN inquiry mission on freedom of expression and religion in Vietnam

Venerable Thich Quang Do, prominent dissident and Deputy leader of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) issued a statement today applauding the recent U.N. “Opinion” pronouncing UBCV Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang and himself to be victims of arbitrary detention, and urging the United Nations’ Special Rapporteurs on Freedom …

Read More »

UBCV leaders Thich Huyen Quang and Thich Quang Do express sympathy to Queen Elizabeth II and Tony Blair following terrorist attacks in London

The International Buddhist Information Bureau (IBIB) has received a letter from Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) to Queen Elizabeth II and from UBCV Deputy Thich Quang Do to British Prime Minister Tony Blair expressing their condolences for the deaths of innocent citizens in …

Read More »

ABC Radio : Vietnam accused of human rights breach over detention of church leader

    A United Nations human rights agency says Vietnamese authorities are wrongfully holding the head of an outlawed Buddhist church who has been under house arrest for almost two years. The UN Working Group of Arbitrary Detention says the detention of Thich Huyen Quang, as well as his deputy …

Read More »

AFP : UN body criticises Vietnam’s detention of Buddhist leaders

  Agence France Presse   GENEVA, July 7 (AFP) – Vietnamese authorities are wrongfully holding the head of an outlawed Buddhist church who has been under house arrest for almost two years, a United Nations human rights body said Thursday. The UN Working Group of Arbitrary Detention said that the …

Read More »

AFP : UN body criticises Vietnam’s detention of Buddhist leaders – ADDS Vietnam official reax

  Agence France Presse   GENEVA, July 7 (AFP) – Vietnamese authorities are wrongfully holding the head of an outlawed Buddhist church who has been under house arrest for almost two years, a United Nations human rights body said Thursday. The UN Working Group of Arbitrary Detention said that the …

Read More »

The United Nations pronounces Thich Huyen Quang and Thich Quang Do victims of arbitrary detention and calls for their immediate release

PARIS, 6 July 2005 (VCHR) – A key United Nations’ monitoring body, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, has pronounced two of Vietnam’s most prominent dissidents, the Patriarch of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) Thich Huyen Quang and his deputy, Venerable Thich Quang Do to be …

Read More »

AFP : Malaysia to demolish memorial built by Vietnamese boat people : appeal from diaspora group

  Agence France Presse   KUALA LUMPUR, June 30 (AFP) – Malaysia is to demolish a memorial built by former Vietnamese boat people on a northern island where they were interned in the 1970s, reports said Thursday. Officials in northern Terengganu state said the construction had never been approved and …

Read More »

VOA : Vietnam Human Rights Record Under Fire in US Congress

    CAPITOL HILL, WASHINGTON DC, 21 June 2005 (VOA) – As Vietnam’s Prime Minister Phan Van Khai prepared to meet with President Bush, members of Congress were cautioning that the government in Hanoi has a long way to go before they are satisfied with its record on human rights …

Read More »