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The church they closed
Most of us are Christians, and the state has decided that one form of our Christianity is not a religion at all but a political conspiracy in religious dress. That decision, written into a prime minister’s instruction in February 2005, is the legal hinge on which most of the last twenty-five years of persecution in the highlands turns. This page...
Cu Kuin, June 2023 — and the trial that followed
At about half past midnight on Sunday, June 11, 2023, two groups of armed men attacked the commune headquarters at Ea Tieu and Ea Ktur in Cu Kuin district, Dak Lak. Nine people were killed: four police officers, two commune officials, and three civilians whose names have never been published. We do not defend that attack and nothing on this page...
The laws used against us
Almost every one of our prisoners of the last twenty-five years was convicted under a handful of articles of Vietnam’s Criminal Code. Most are national security offenses written so broadly that praying in an unregistered church, talking to a foreign diplomat, posting on Facebook or crossing the border can be made to fit them. This page sets out...
Our defenders and prisoners
These are the records of highland people imprisoned for their faith, their organizing or their testimony, whose cases are well enough documented to set down in full: pastors and deacons of the house churches, a man who wrote down the names of other prisoners, a man who met American diplomats. Most were convicted of “undermining national unity.”...
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