PARIS, 31 August 2010 (IBIB) - The Most Venerable
Thich Quang Do, Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) has sent a letter to the Vietnamese leadership denouncing violent Police assaults on UBCV Buddhists gathering peacefully at the Giac Minh Pagoda in Da Nang to celebrate the traditional “Vu Lan” festival on 24 August 2010. The UBCV Patriarch, 82, sent the letter by registered post to President Nguyen Minh Triet, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, Communist Party Secretary-general (...)
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2010-08-11
PARIS, 11 August 2010 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE) – Mr.
Vo Van Ai, President of the Paris-based
Vietnam Committee on Human Rights, an affiliate of the
International Federation on Human Rights (
FIDH) expressed outrage over inequalities in Vietnam’s legal system regarding the sentence facing a policeman who beat a 21-year-old man to death for riding a motorbike without a helmet.
“Vietnam receives millions of dollars from the international community to reform its legal system. Yet its laws are blatantly unfair, and (...) continue
2010-07-24
PARIS, 24 July 2010 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE) – Mr.
Vo Van Ai, President of the Paris-based
Vietnam Committee on Human Rights, an affiliate of the
International Federation on Human Rights (
FIDH) sent a letter today to Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet calling on him to lift the death sentence on Phan Minh Man, a 20 year-old student condemned to death on 17 July 2010 by the People’s Court in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) for the murder of his alcoholic father (...)
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2010-07-16
PARIS, 16 July 2010 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE) - Mr.
Vo Van Ai, President of the Paris-based
Vietnam Committee on Human Rights, an affiliate of the
International Federation of Human Rights (
FIDH) welcomed Vietnam’s publication of the first issue of a monthly human rights magazine, but expressed concern that the journal is designed as a propaganda tool to justify Communist Party policies and rebuff international criticisms, rather than a genuine forum for debate on the promotion of human rights.
“The government (...) continue
2010-06-29
PARIS, 29 June 2010 (IBIB) - In a letter to Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam’s leader
Thich Quang Do announced that he will travel to Binh Dinh province to participate in a Memorial Ceremony for the late UBCV Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang and called on the authorities to ensure his safe passage for this important event.
The Memorial Ceremony or “Đại Tường”
(1), which commemorates two years of the Patriarch’s (...)
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