(New York) – Vietnamese authorities should immediately release the Hoa Hao Buddhist activist Nguyen Van Lia and drop all charges against him, Human Rights Watch said today. His trial is scheduled for ...

Leaders of many faiths in Vietnam have reprimanded the government for brutally attacking followers of an independent group who protested against the planned destruction of their old temple. Six ...

They were commemorating a friend's death. The police stopped the members of the sect and confiscated motorcycles and registration documents. The arrest occurred after two months at the hands of ...

As if to celebrate the first anniversary of his coming to power, Premier Ngo Dinh Diem struck three heavy blows last week against the Hoa Hao (pronounced Wha-How), the second of his country’s ...

Followers of an indigenous Buddhist sect in southern Vietnam were prevented by police from marking their founder's death anniversary, leading some to take up a hunger strike. When police stopped ...

(New York) – Vietnam should suspend charges against six Hoa Hao Buddhist followers and investigate whether police actions against them were taken for discriminatory reasons or religious persecution, ...

year for June 13. Another reason for the hunger strike was to protest an alleged attack against Hoa Hao followers on May 24. Plainclothes police reportedly attacked some Hoa Hao as they sought to ...

Commemoration of the birthday of Huynh Prophet of the Hoa Hao Buddhist Church in Vietnam has been blocked by local authorities with checkpoints that make it hard for the faithfuls to attend.

The Vietnam Inter- Religions Council opposed the government's prohibition of the Purity Hoa Hao Buddhism celebrating the birthday of the Huynh Prophet. It was previously known that the authorities ...

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