The International Buddhist Information Bureau (IBIB) has received urgent information from the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) that UBCV Buddhist monk Thich Vien Phuong was arrested in Saigon by Security Police today (Wednesday 30th March 30th) at 5.30 pm Vietnam time. Security Police arrested him on his motorbike …
Read More »PARIS, 25 March 2005 (IBIB) – Buddhist monk Thich Thien Minh, member of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) released in a government amnesty after 26 years in re-education camp, sent an urgent communication to the International Buddhist Information Bureau (IBIB) this morning reporting that he is the victim …
Read More »Buddhist monk Thich Thien Minh, 51, member of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam released in a government amnesty on 2 February 2005 after 26 years in re-education camp has sent an “Petition” to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) denouncing grave abuses of religious freedom in …
Read More »The Most Venerable Thich Huyen Quang, 86, prominent dissident and Fourth Supreme Patriarch of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV), has sent an “Open Letter” to the Vietnamese leadership denouncing recent harassments of UBCV monks, and condemning the unlawful detention of UBCV Deputy leader Venerable Thich Quang Do …
Read More »Buddhist Era 2548 VTT/TT To : Mr. Nong Duc Manh, Secretary-general of the Communist Party of Vietnam Mr. Tran Duc Luong, President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Mr. Phan Van Khai, Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Mr. Nguyen Van An, President of the SRV National Assembly Dear …
Read More »The International Buddhist Information Bureau is informed that Venerable Thich Quang Do, Deputy Head of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) was prevented by Security Police from setting off today to Binh Dinh province (central Vietnam) with a delegation of UBCV monks to pay a traditional Lunar New …
Read More »On the occasion of the Lunar New Year, the Very Venerable Thich Quang Do, Deputy leader of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) has launched a vibrant appeal to Vietnamese from all different political and religious currents to rally together in a common effort for democracy in Vietnam. …
Read More »Thich Thien Minh, secular name Huynh Van Ba, 51, was released in a government amnesty on 2, February 2005. A member of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV), former Superior monk of Vinh Binh Pagoda in Bac Lieu, southern Vietnam, Thich Thien Minh was detained for 26 years for …
Read More »Forum Asia Democracy is alarmed to learn that Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy and two M.P.s from the Sam Rainsy Party, Chea Poch and Cheam Channy, have been stripped of their parliamentary immunity. The Cambodian National Assembly took the vote on 3 February 2005, after instructing foreign diplomats, ONGs and …
Read More »The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights warmly welcomes Vietnam’s decision to release several prisoners of conscience in the coming days in a government amnesty for the Tet (Lunar New Year, 9th February 2005). The organization sincerely thanks the United States, the European Union, the European Parliament, the United Nations and …
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