{"id":326,"date":"2005-02-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/queme.org\/en\/vietnamese-dissident-calls-for-democracy\/"},"modified":"2016-09-09T13:50:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T13:50:45","slug":"vietnamese-dissident-calls-for-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/vietnamese-dissident-calls-for-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>ABC Radio<\/i> : Vietnamese dissident calls for democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of Vietnam\u2019s most prominent religious dissidents has reportedly issued a nationwide appeal for greater democracy and pluralism.<\/p>\n<p>Thich Quang Do, 76, is deputy head of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>The Paris-based International Buddhist Information Bureau says he has directed his call in an open letter to \u201cVietnamese personalities, intellectuals, writers, artists and all compatriots at home and abroad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Bureau is the communication arm of the church.<\/p>\n<p>It quotes Thich Quang Do as calling on all political forces to follow \u201ca path of democracy and pluralism that will bring true stability, development and well-being\u201d to Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>Thich Quang Do has spent most of his life in prison and is now under constant house arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Vietnam\u2019s most prominent religious dissidents has reportedly issued a nationwide appeal for greater democracy and pluralism. Thich Quang Do, 76, is deputy head of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam. The Paris-based International Buddhist Information Bureau says he has directed his call in an open letter to \u201cVietnamese personalities, intellectuals, writers, artists &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-press-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}