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 »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 »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 »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 »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 »The International Buddhist Information Bureau (IBIB) has received urgent information from the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) that a delegation of UBCV monks from Hue was intercepted this morning by Security Police as they sought to pay a visit to UBCV Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang at the Nguyen Thieu …
Read More »Testifying before the International Relations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives today, Mr. Vo Van Ai, President of Que Me : Action for Democracy in Vietnam and International Spokesman of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV), gave evidence of the grave and systematic violations of human rights and …
Read More »HANOI, 18 June 2005 (dpa) – Human rights groups were urging U.S. President George W. Bush to address human rights and religious freedom during Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai’s landmark visit to the United States. “President Bush needs to send a clear message to Hanoi that progress …
Read More »As Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai embarks on his first official visit to the United States of America, Mr. Vo Van Ai, President of the Paris-based Vietnam Committee on Human Rights has sent a letter to U.S. President George W. Bush calling on him to press for concrete progress …
Read More »PARIS – Mr. Vo Van Ai, l’ President of the Paris-based Vietnam Committee on Human Rights urged Malaysia today not to tear down a memorial set up by former Vietnamese Boat People on the island of Pulau Bidong. The Malaysian government gave orders to destroy the memorial after receiving complaints …
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Quê Me Quê Me: Action for democracy in Vietnam & Vietnam Committee on Human Rights