PARIS, 8 March 2010 (IBIB) - The Patriarch of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV)
Thich Quang Do has written to three prominent women, U.S. Congresswoman
Loretta Sanchez, Rafto Foundation Director
Therese Jebsen (Norway) and French lawyer
Nathalie Muller-Sarallier, calling on them to join together in an international initiative for human rights and democracy in Vietnam. The letters were sent from Thanh Minh Zen Monastery in Saigon, where the 81-year old Buddhist dissident and 2010 Nobel Peace prize (...)
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2010-01-25
In Vietnam hundreds of monks undergo re-education to infiltrate overseas temples with the aim to destroy the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam
Vietnam has waged a brutal overt and covert war against its Buddhist population for decades.
In 1981, they officially outlawed their country’s oldest and original Buddhist Church, the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV).
The communists attacked the 2000-year-old tradition and created an alternative state-controlled Buddhist Church.
Those who refused to submit allegiance to (...)
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Democracy on Trial in Vietnam: Peaceful advocates receive up to 16 years jail for “subversion”
2010-01-21
PARIS, 21 January 2010 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE) - Mr.
Vo Van Ai, President of the Paris-based
Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) strongly condemns the condemnation of four pro-democracy activists to 5-16 years in prison for so-called
“activities aimed at overthrowing the people’s administration” at an unfair trial at the Ho Chi Minh City Supreme People’s Court on Wednesday.
“Vietnam’s first action as President of ASEAN and of the new ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights is appalling. It bears (...) continue
2010-01-16
PARIS, 16 January 2010 (IBIB) - The Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV)
Thich Quang Do has launched an appeal to Vietnamese Buddhists worldwide to support relief efforts for victims of the devastating earthquake in Haiti. The appeal was sent from the Thanh Minh Zen Monastery in Saigon, where the 81-year old UBCV leader and prominent dissident is under effective house arrest, and received by the International Buddhist Information Bureau today.
“The sufferings of our own (...) continue
2009-12-28
PARIS, 28 December 2009 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE) - Mr.
Vo Van Ai, President of the
Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR), condemned the sentence of Vietnamese pro-democracy activist
Tran Anh Kim to five and a half years in prison and 3 years probationary house arrest at a perfunctory trial of less than four hours at the People’s court in Thai Binh Province today as a “parody of justice”.
“This trial shows, once again, Hanoi’s total contempt for its citizens rights, (...) continue
