As they prepare to board a plane to Saigon: Hanoi prohibits visit by Euro MP Marco Pannella and Italian Senator Marco Perduca to Vietnam
2008-12-23
PARIS, 23 December 2008 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RIGHTS) - Prominent Member of the European Parliament, Marco Pannella, and Italian Senator Marco Perduca, were prevented from boarding a plane from Phnom Penh to Saigon today to visit Vietnam. They were scheduled to visit Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam leader Thich Quang Do today before travelling to Hanoi to meet Vietnamese officials and members of the National Assembly on 24-25th December. The trip followed an invitation extended by a delegation of (...) continue
US Deputy Ambassador visits Buddhist monk Thich Thien Hanh in Hue
2008-12-16
PARIS, 16 December 2008 (IBIB) - The International Buddhist Information Bureau received a report today from the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) on a visit by the Deputy Chief of Mission of the United States Embassy in Hanoi, Ms. Virginia E. Palmer to Very Venerable Thich Thien Hanh, Secretary General of the UBCV’s Institute of the Sangha and Head of the UBCV Representative Board in Thua Thien-Hue. Venerable Thich Chi Thang, Head of the UBCV’s Youth Department in Hue (...) continue
Security Police assault UBCV monk Thich Nhat Ban and vandalize his pagoda
2008-12-04
PARIS, 4 December 2008 (International Buddhist Information Bureau) – Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Ban, 73, Superior monk at the Ba La Mat pagoda and head of the local representative board of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) in the southern province of Dong Nai has been beaten and his Pagoda vandalized because of his adherence to the outlawed UBCV. In an urgent appeal to UBCV leader Thich Quang Do, received by the International Buddhist Information Bureau today, Thich Nhat (...) continue
Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam holds leadership meeting in Saigon
2008-11-18
PARIS, 18 November 2008 (IBIB) - Leading monks from the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) gathered at the Giac Hoa Pagoda in Saigon on 15 November 2008 for a meeting of the UBCV Supreme Bi-cameral Council (Institute of the Sangha and Institute for the Dissemination of the Dharma Vien Hoa Dao), to discuss strategies and activities for 2009. This is the first leadership meeting of the outlawed UBCV since the death of Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang in July 2008 (...) continue
Wives of detained dissidents launch appeal for their husbands’ release
2008-11-01
PARIS, 1st November 2008 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RIGHTS) - The wives of five pro-democracy activists in Vietnam whose husbands were arrested in September 2008 have written to the Vietnamese leadership calling for their release and “safe return” to their families. In a letter dated 30.10.2008, Mrs Nguyen Thi Nga, the wife of writer Nguyen Xuan Nghia, Mrs Nguyen Thi Huyen Trang, wife of human rights defender Nguyen Van Troi, Mrs Bui Thi Re, wife of Nguyen Van Tuc, Mrs (...) continue
