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Thursday, April 03, 2014
House Committee Holds Hearing On Persecution of Religious Communities In Vietnam
A video is now available online of the March 26 hearing by the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee's Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission on Persecution of Religious and Indigenous Communities in Vietnam. The hearing Witness List included USCIRF Commissioner Eric P. Schwartz (written testimony), Father Phan Van Loi (Co-Founder of the Association of Former Vietnamese Prisoners of Conscience), Sub-dignitary Nguyen Bach Phung (Clergy member of an independent Cao Dai Sect); Yunie Hong (Director of Policy Advocacy, Hmong National Development), and Rong Nay (Executive Director, Montagnard Human Rights Organization).
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