Vietnamese dissident monk dies at 93
Thich Quang Do, in 2006, received Norway's Rafto human rights award for ‘his personal courage and perseverance through three decades of peaceful opposition against the communist regime in Vietnam’ - EPA pic, February 23, 2020.
THICH Quang Do, a dissident Buddhist monk who has effectively been under house arrest since 2003 and was nominated multiple times for the Nobel Peace Prize, has died aged 93. Head of the banned Unified Buddist Church of Vietnam , the vocal patriarch was born on November 27, 1928 in northern Thai Binh province and spent most of his life advocating for religious freedom and human rights in communist-run Vietnam.
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