Posted
on Monday, May 05, 2014 @ 17:45:03 EDT
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Jeff
Sagnip (202) 225-3765
May
5,
2013
Press
Conf. Set for Tues., May 6 @ 4 p.m.
Recently
Released Political Prisoner to Speak Out on Human Rights in Vietnam
Newly
freed scholar Vu to join Smith, ex-Rep. Gao, Boat People SOS
WASHINGTON,
D.C. – Human
rights and congressional leaders advocating for victims of widespread abuses,
religious persecution and political repression at the hands of the Vietnamese
Government will gather for a press conference Tuesday in anticipation of
upcoming annual dialogue between the U.S. and Vietnamese governments. The press
conference participants will call for an end to Vietnam’s instruments of
repression and the release of all prisoners of conscience.
Who:
Chairman
Chris Smith,
(NJ-04) Senior Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and chair of its
subcommittee on global human rights;
Anh
“Joseph” Cao of Louisiana, former Member of U.S. Congress (only Vietnamese
ever elected to Congress)
Dr.
Nguyen Dinh Thang,
Ph.D., Executive Director, Boat People SOS
Dr.
Cu Huy Ha Vu,
Vietnamese constitutional scholar and recently released former prisoner of
conscience.
What: Press
conf. calling for release of prisoners, human rights in Vietnam to be discussed
at upcoming talks
Where: Rayburn House
Office Building, Room 2255 (second floor).
When: May
6, 2014 @ 4 p.m.
Ls.
Nguyễn Thị Dương Hà, DB Christopher Smith và Ts. Nguyễn Đình Thắng, 11/07/2013
(ảnh văn phòng DB Smith) http://www.machsong.org/spaw/images/With%20Chris%20Smith%202%20small.jpg
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