{"id":671,"date":"2006-09-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/queme.org\/en\/vietnamese-monk-wins-norwegian-human-rights-prize\/"},"modified":"2016-09-09T13:49:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T13:49:00","slug":"vietnamese-monk-wins-norwegian-human-rights-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/vietnamese-monk-wins-norwegian-human-rights-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Reuters<\/i> : Vietnamese monk wins Norwegian human rights prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/images\/reuters.gif\" alt=\"Le Monde - http:\/\/www.reuters.com\" width=\"137\" height=\"30\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>OSLO, 21 September 2006 (Reuters) &#8211; A Norwegian human rights body, which has four times anticipated the choice of the Nobel Peace Prize winner with its own award, chose a Vietnamese monk on Thursday to receive its annual prize.<\/p>\n<p>The Thorolf Rafto Foundation for Human Rights honored Thich Quang Do \u201cfor his personal courage and perseverance through three decades of peaceful opposition against the communist regime in Vietnam, and as a symbol for the growing democracy movement in the country,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Quang Do, 77, has spent 25 years in prison and remains under house arrest, the foundation said.<\/p>\n<p>Four previous Rafto laureates, Myanmar\u2019s Aung San Suu Kyi, East Timor\u2019s Jose Ramos-Horta, South Korea\u2019s Kim Dae-Jung and Iran\u2019s Shirin Ebadi, subsequently won the Nobel Peace Prize.<\/p>\n<p>The 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner will be announced on October 13 in Oslo.<\/p>\n<p>Quang Do is among this year\u2019s nominees for the Nobel prize, human rights campaigner Penelope Faulkner said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; OSLO, 21 September 2006 (Reuters) &#8211; A Norwegian human rights body, which has four times anticipated the choice of the Nobel Peace Prize winner with its own award, chose a Vietnamese monk on Thursday to receive its annual prize. The Thorolf Rafto Foundation for Human Rights honored Thich Quang Do \u201cfor his personal &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-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-press-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","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=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}