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• UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion interrupted visit in Vietnam

  August 1, 2014

  

  The United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Prof. Dr. Heiner Bielefeldt, was invited by the Government of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam to a country visit from 21 to 31 July 2014. After visiting some religious groups in Hanoi, Tuyen Quang Province, Ho Chi Minh City and Vinh Long the Special Rapporteur interrupted his travel on July 28, 2014, due to reason “that  some individuals whom I wanted to meet with had been either under heavy surveillance, warned, intimidated, harassed or prevented from travelling by the police. Even those who successfully met with me were not free from a certain degree of police surveillance or... Read more »

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• The 25-year persecution of the Hmong’s Duong Van Minh Religion

  July 30, 2014

  

  VETO! Report (July 2014) Vietnam Suppression of religious freedom among ethnic minorities The 25-year persecution of the Hmong’s Duong Van Minh Religion The Duong Van Minh belief is a variant of Christian religion for Hmong ethnics. It has up to 10.000 believers living in the four Northeastern provinces of Vietnam: Cao Bang, Bac Kan, Tuyen Quang and Thai Nguyen. It is not recognized by the Vietnamese government and therefore its activities are seen as illegal. The most known characteristic of this belief is the simplified funeral ceremony. Instead of expensive parties and having noisy drums and trumpets during the funeral the believers use symbolic items made of wood such as... Read more »

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• Vietnam: When government treats detainee’s medical records like a state secret

  July 21, 2014

  

  (VETO! notice: The Vietnamese human rights defender Dinh Dang Dinh was arrested in October 2011 because he had protested against bauxite mining in the Central Highlands of Vietnam and called for a plural democracy. He was sentenced to 6 years in prison for “spreading propaganda aginst the state” in August 2012. He passed away in April 2014, likely his cancer was too late treated by a hospital. Dr. Med. Tran is living in Germany and has followed the medical history of the political prisoner Dinh. ) Read more »

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