Whilst hundreds of millions of Buddhists around the globe celebrate the 2548th Anniversary of the Birth of Buddha, or Vesak, on June 2nd 2004, and a ceremony of international observance of the “Day of Vesak” took place at the United Nations in New York, leaders of the outlawed Unified Buddhist …
Read More »Agence France Presse HANOI, Mar 17, 2004 (AFP) – The United States urged the Vietnamese government to grant the United Nations (news – web sites) refugee agency access to a Buddhist dissident jailed for 20 months for undermining internal security. Pham Van Tuong was found guilty on March …
Read More »The International Buddhist Information Bureau (IBIB) has received an urgent appeal for help from Venerable Thich Vien Dinh, Superior monk of Giac Hoa Pagoda in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). He reports that the Security Police and authorities threaten to expel 40 resident Buddhist monks and cut off the electricity …
Read More »70 delegations of senior monks, nuns and lay-Buddhists representing sections of the Vietnamese American Unified Buddhist Congress in the USA (VAUBC-USA), leaders of the Buddhist Youth Movement and representatives of 36 organizations of the Vietnamese community and media from all over the United States, Canada and Europe gathered in San …
Read More »The U.S. ambassador to Vietnam met Wednesday with the patriarch of an outlawed Vietnamese Buddhist church who is under virtual house arrest, the embassy said. Ambassador Raymond Burghardt “met this morning with Thich Huyen Quang for an hour-long private conversation,” said embassy spokesman Tom Carmichael. He gave no …
Read More »At 10.50 a.m. this morning (28, April 2004), U.S. Ambassador Raymond Burghardt paid a visit to the Most Venerable Thich Huyen Quang, Patriarch of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) at the Nguyen Thieu Monastery in Binh Dinh Province, where the 86-year-old UBCV leader is currently under house …
Read More »The International Buddhist International Information Bureau (IBIB) has received a copy of a forceful Petition sent to Vietnamese President Tran Duc Luong and Prime Minister Phan Van Khai by two senior dignitaries of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) calling for the release of UBCV monks arrested in …
Read More »Deutsch Presse-Agentur HANOI, April 10, 2004 (dpa) – A Vietnamese dissident and United Nations refugee who says he was kidnapped from Cambodia, forcibly repatriated and jailed in Vietnam will be allowed to leave the communist country, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees representative said Saturday. We met …
Read More »HANOI, April 8 (Reuters) – Vietnam will permit a dissident Buddhist monk, who recently completed a 20-month jail term for stirring unrest against Hanoi, to resettle in another country if he wants to, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Thursday. A representative of the United Nations High Commissioner …
Read More »Deutsch Presse-Agentur HANOI, April 2, 2003 (dpa) – Vietnam is using espionage charges as an excuse to arrest dissidents and suppress freedom of expression in the communist country, the president of a Paris-based human rights group told the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva Friday. Vo …
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