In a letter sent by fax to the Vietnamese leadership today, Mr. Vo Van Ai, President of the Paris-based Vietnam Committee on Human Rights and Vice-President of the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) called for the urgent release of Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang of the banned Unified Buddhist Church …
Read More »The European Foreign Affairs Commissioner Chris Patten has expressed EC concern on Vietnam’s continued detention of Venerable Thich Huyen Quang, Patriarch of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) and his Deputy, Venerable Thich Quang Do, and called for the Buddhist leaders’ release. In written replies to questions tabled …
Read More »PARIS, 6 June 2001 (VCHR) – The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) is deeply concerned for the safety of Olivier Dupuis, Member of the European Parliament and Secretary of the Italy-based Transnational Radical Party and his assistant, Martin Schulthes, arrested at 19.30 (Vietnam time) in front of the Thanh …
Read More »PARIS, 6 June 2001 (VCHR) – Mr Olivier Dupuis, Member of the European Parliament and Secretary-general of the Transnational Radical Party is staging a sit-in today inside the Thanh Minh Zen Monastery at 90 Tran Huy Lieu Street, Phu Nhuan Ward, Ho Chi Minh City, to protest Vietnam’s arbitrary detention …
Read More »PARIS, 6th June 1995 (VCHR) – The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights has just received an important document written by a veteran communist official in charge of religious affairs which sheds new light on the Communist Party of Viet Nam (CPV)’s policy towards the Buddhist Church. The document, written …
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