e-1767 (Foreign policy)
- Keywords
- Civil and human rights
- Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership
- Economic sanctions
- Foreign policy
- Lau, Vu Van
- Trade agreements
- Truong, Pham Huu
- Vietnam
Original language of petition: English
Petition to the Government of Canada
- Persecution of religious minorities in Vietnam is a state policy;
- Religious and political persecution of Montagnards, highlanders who practice De Ga Protestantism and Ha Mon Catholicism is rampant;
- At least 60 Montagnards are currently serving prison sentences of up to 17 years for simply exercising their rights to peaceful dissent and independent worship;
- At least 25 Montagnards have died in prison or detention as a result of torture and mistreatment;
- Thousands of Montagnard Christians were forced to renounce their faith;
- The Vietnamese government continues to arrest, torture and jail Montagnard Christians for their religious and political beliefs;
- Colonel Vu Van Lau and Senior Lt. Colonel Pham Huu Truong, directors of Public Security Department of Gia Lai Province, Vietnam, have been accused of being responsible for serious human rights abuses, and to be leaders of an entity that has engaged in serious human rights abuses; and
- Sanctions against them would protect an entire class of persecuted Montagnard Christians in Vietnam from future abuse.
- Open for signature
- June 29, 2018, at 12:09 p.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- October 27, 2018, at 12:09 p.m. (EDT)