VCHR Archives - Page 32 of 34

At a Hearing in the US Congress during the visit of Vietnamese Premier Phan Van Khai : Vo Van Ai denounces “religions with socialist orientations” and calls for a National Referendum on Democracy in Vietnam

June 20, 2005 VCHR 0

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 …

Vietnam Committee urges President Bush to press for human rights and religious freedom in meeting with Vietnamese Premier Phan Van Khai

June 17, 2005 VCHR 0

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 …

Vietnam Committee urges Malaysia not to tear down Vietnamese Boat People Memorial

June 15, 2005 VCHR 0

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 …

On the Occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the End of the Vietnam War, Vo Van Ai calls on the Community of Democracies in Santiago, Chile to support a democratic process in Vietnam

April 30, 2005 VCHR 0

SANTIAGO, CHILE – Addressing the 3rd Ministerial Meeting of the Community of Democracies in Santiago, Chile from 28-30 April 2005, Vo Van Ai, President of the Vietnam Committee for Human Rights and Que Me : Action for Democracy in Vietnam, called on democratic governments around the world “to support a process …

At the 61st Session of the UN Commission Human Rights : Vo Van Ai denounces Vietnam’s secret service GD2 and reveals a Communist Party instruction manual on religious repression

April 5, 2005 VCHR 0

PALAIS DES NATIONS, GENEVA, 5 April 2005 (VCHR) – Speaking at the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva today, Mr. Vo Van Ai, President of the Paris-based Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) and Vice-President of the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) condemned the institutionalisation of State repression …

Cambodian Opposition leader Sam Rainsy stripped of immunity : a step backwards for Cambodian democracy

February 5, 2005 VCHR 0

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 …

Vietnam Committee welcomes amnesty of dissidents and urges Vietnam to release all long-term political and religious detainees

January 31, 2005 VCHR 0

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 …

Vietnam Committee on Human Rights protests Vietnam’s denial of visa to US Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez

December 8, 2004 VCHR 0

The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights strongly condemns Vietnam’s refusal to grant a visa to US Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez to visit Vietnam. Congresswoman Sanchez, a Democrat who represents “Little Saigon” in Santa Ana (California), the largest Vietnamese community in the United States, and who is currently in Thailand on a …

Vietnam Committee on Human Rights condemns unfair prison sentence on Reverend Nguyen Hong Quang

November 12, 2004 VCHR 0

The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights strongly condemns the unfair prison sentence handed down on several members of the banned Vietnamese Evangelical Mennonite Church simply for the peaceful exercise of their religious beliefs. At an unfair trial at the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court on Friday 12 November, which …

Fifth ASEM Summit in Hanoi : 109 Euro MPs call for the immediate release of Buddhist dissidents Thich Huyen Quang and Thich Quang Do

October 7, 2004 VCHR 0

In an Open Letter to the Presidency of the European Union, 109 prominent Members of the European Parliament from all political parties have urged the EU to place human rights, in particular human rights in Vietnam, “at the centre of discussions at the ASEM Summit in Hanoi”, and called for …