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The church they closed
Most Dega 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 is the legal hinge on which most of the last twenty-five years of persecution in the highlands turns.
The laws used against us
Almost every Dega prisoner of the last twenty-five years was convicted under a handful of articles of Vietnam’s Penal Code. Most are national-security offenses written so broadly that praying in an unregistered church, talking to a foreign diplomat or crossing the border can be made to fit them. This page sets out those articles, their penalties...
Our defenders and prisoners
Short records of highland people imprisoned for their faith, their organizing or their testimony, as documented by independent monitors. Each entry gives what the record shows and where it comes from. Many more names are in our prisoner records; this page profiles those whose cases are best documented.
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