Forbidden faith in Vietnam
Thích Quang Do is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, religious leader, and outspoken critic of the Vietnamese government. He is the head of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) and has been involved with its leadership since the 1960s. Once the largest Buddhist organization of southern Vietnam, the UBCV came under systematic persecution by the government after 1975 for its involvement in the human rights movement; its leaders, including Thích Quang Do, were arrested and sent into domestic exile in 1982. He returned to Saigon in March of 1992, when he was again arrested and sentenced to five years in prison for documenting the government’s oppression of the UBCV. He was released from prison in August of 1998 and placed under house arrest in 2001 for his continued activism. In 2006, Thích Quang Do won the Rafto Prize. Share
On the Web
Read Que Me's profile of Thích Quang Do
Visit the homepage of Que Me: Action for Democracy in Vietnam, a leading Vietnamese human rights and democracy organization.
Watch a special interview with Thich Quang Do that was screened at Oslo Freedom Forum 2010:
At the Confrence
An exclusive interview of Thích Quang Do was screened during the session themed The Spark of Change and included the following speakers: Up Down