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In preparation for the VCP Central Committee’s 10th Plenum in July : High-ranking Communist Party veteran denounces excessive powers of Hanoi’s military intelligence and reveals schisms within the Party leadership

July 29, 2004 VCHR 0

The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights has obtained a copy of a letter sent by a high-ranking military veteran to the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP) leadership which sheds new light on the inner workings of the VCP’s military intelligence services, and exposes deep schisms within the leadership of the VCP. …

Hanoi fails in attempt to stifle NGO freedom of speech at the United Nations

July 24, 2004 News, Press Release, VCHR 0

PARIS, 24 July 2004 (VCHR) – The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights warmly welcomes the decision taken by the UN Economic and Social Council (Ecosoc) meeting at the UN headquarters in New York on Friday 23 July to reject a recommendation filed by Vietnam to suspend the consultative status of …

Dissidents Tran Khue and Pham Que Duong face unfair trials in Vietnam

July 8, 2004 VCHR 0

The Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights condemn the forthcoming trials of dissidents Tran Khue and Pham Que Duong to be held on 9 and 14 July 2004 respectively. The organizations protest against the grave violations of freedom of opinion to which …

Buddhist dissident Thich Tri Luc reports from Sweden :
Security Police forced him to conceal the truth at his trial in exchange for freedom

July 8, 2004 IBIB 0

The International Buddhist Information Bureau (IBIB) has received a statement from Buddhist dissident Thich Tri Luc (secular name Pham Van Tuong) with the request that it be made public to the international media. Sent from Sweden, where he has been granted political asylum, the statement describes Thich Tri Luc’s views …

As the United Nations observes the International Day of the Vesak in New York, UBCV leaders “celebrate” Buddha’s Birthday under house arrest in Vietnam

June 2, 2004 IBIB 0

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 …

AFP : US calls on Vietnam to let UNHCR have access to jailed Buddhist

May 17, 2004 Press Review 0

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 …

Security Police threaten to expel Buddhist monks and cut off electricity at Giac Hoa Pagoda in Saigon for supporting the banned UBCV

May 17, 2004 IBIB 0

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 …

Buddhist Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang calls on all Vietnamese Buddhists to unite in the non-violent struggle for the survival of Buddhism

May 4, 2004 IBIB 0

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 …

AP : U.S. ambassador meets with head of outlawed Vietnam church

April 28, 2004 Press Review 0

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 …

U.S. Ambassador Raymond Burghardt visits UBCV Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang in Binh Dinh

April 28, 2004 IBIB 0

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 …