Nguyễn Hồng Quang
Nguyễn Hồng Quang is a lawyer , civil rights activist and Mennonite pastor in Vietnam .
Nguyễn Hồng Quang is married to Le Thi Phu Dung and has three children. He is vice chairman of the Mennonite Church of Vietnam. In his role as a lawyer and pastor, Nguyễn campaigned for the right to religious freedom and for the rights of the Vietnamese hill tribes ( Montagnards ) .
Nguyễn was sentenced to three years' imprisonment in November 2004 for resisting state power after he reported two people who had abused and kidnapped Christians. He then sat in five prisons. The home of the Nguyễn family in Ho Chi Minh City , which also housed a Mennonite meeting room, was badly damaged by the Vietnamese authorities in July 2005. In August 2005, Quang was released early from custody after international protests.
Since December 14, 2010, Nguyễn Hồng Quang has been detained again. At the same time, the civil rights activist's house was completely destroyed.
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Individual evidence
- ^ PEN Welcomes Release of Vietnamese Lawyer. (No longer available online.) PEN American Center, archived from the original on June 7, 2011 ; Retrieved December 18, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Vietnamese Mennonite pastor freed. Asian News, accessed December 18, 2010 .
- ^ SR Vietnam: Mennonite Church torn down, two pastors in custody. International Society for Human Rights (ISHR), accessed December 18, 2010 .
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nguyon, Hang Quang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Vietnamese lawyer, civil rights activist and Mennonite preacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |