•HRES 1089 IH 
Whereas on April 8, 2006, 118 Vietnamese citizens signed a 
Manifesto on Freedom and Democracy for Vietnam, with 
the objective ‘‘to reestablish fundamental rights of the 
people’’ of Vietnam, ‘‘sacred rights of the Vietnamese na-
tion [which] have been brutally trampled upon the mo-
ment the communist government was installed in Viet-
nam’’; 
Whereas these 118 Vietnamese citizens and the thousands 
who have subsequently signed the Manifesto are referred 
to as the Bloc 8406, based on date the Manifesto was 
signed, on the eighth day of April in the year 2006; 
Whereas the Manifesto calls on those inside and outside Viet-
nam to support peaceful, non-violent action to bring de-
mocracy and basic human rights to the Vietnamese peo-
ple; 
Whereas 13 of these brave supporters of democracy have 
since been sentenced to a total of 68 years in prison for 
signing the Manifesto; 
Whereas at least 10 of these democracy advocates have since 
been detained by the Government of Vietnam for 18 
months or more, for signing their names to the Mani-
festo; 
Whereas at least five other signers of the peaceful, non-vio-
lent Manifesto have been harassed and placed under 
house arrest by the Government of Vietnam; and 
Whereas in addition to the signers of the Manifesto, the Gov-
ernment of Vietnam has continued to harass, arrest, and 
detain peaceful, non-violent supporters of democracy, in-
cluding United States citizens Cong Thanh Do, Truong 
Van Ba, Nguyen Quoc Quan, and to unlawfully arrest 
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•HRES 1089 IH 
United States citizens traveling to Vietnam, including Le 
Van Phan, and Nguyen Thi Thinh: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That 
(1) the House of Representatives— 
(A) calls on the government of Vietnam to 
release those imprisoned for signing the Mani-
festo on Freedom and Democracy for Vietnam, 
including— 
(i) Father Nguyen Van Ly, sentenced 
to 8 years; 
(ii) Nguyen Phong, sentenced to 6 
years; 
(iii) Nguyen Binh Thanh, sentenced 
to 5 years; 
(iv) Nguyen Bac Truyen, jurist, sen-
tenced to 4 years; 
(v) Le Nguyen Sang, medical doctor, 
sentenced to 5 years; 
(vi) Huynh Nguyen Dao, journalist, 
sentenced to 3 years; 
(vii) Nguyen Van Dai, lawyer, sen-
tenced to 5 years; 
(viii) Le Thi Cong Nhan, lawyer, sen-
tenced to 4 years; 
(ix) Tran Quoc Hien, jurist, sentenced 
to 5 years; 
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•HRES 1089 IH 
(x) Le Van Soc, Hoa Hao Buddhist, 
sentenced to 6 years; 
(xi) Hang Tan Phat, sentenced to 6 
years; 
(xii) Truong Quoc Huy, freelance 
journalist, sentenced to 6 years; and 
(xiii) Truong Minh Duc, sentenced to 
5 years; 
(B) urges the Government of Vietnam to 
end its detention of those who are being held 
without a trial, for their signature to the Mani-
festo, including— 
(i) Vu Hoang Hai; 
(ii) Nguyen Ngoc Quang; 
(iii) Pham Ba Hai; 
(iv) Nguyen Tan Hoanh (aka Doan 
Huu Chuong); 
(v) Tran Thi Le Hang; 
(vi) Doan Van Dien; 
(vii) Le Ba Triet; 
(viii) Ho Thi Bich Khuong; 
(ix) Vu Van Hung; and 
(x) Dang Hung; and 
(C) insists that the Government of Viet-
nam cease harassment and house arrest of 
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•HRES 1089 IH 
those non-violent democracy advocates who 
signed the Manifesto, including— 
(i) Bui Kim Thanh, jurist; 
(ii) Do Nam Hai, co-founder of Bloc 
8406; 
(iii) Tran Khai Thanh Thuy, novelist; 
(iv) Hong Trung, Seventh-day Ad-
ventist pastor; 
(v) Nguyen Hong Quang, Mennonite 
pastor; and 
(vi) Pham Ngoc Thach, Mennonite 
evangelist; and 
(2) it is the sense of the House of Representa-
tives that— 
(A) the members of the Bloc 8406 should 
be commended for their selfless, peaceful ef-
forts, to bring democracy and human rights to 
the Vietnamese people; 
(B) the President should request that the 
Government of Vietnam release all of these non- 
violent, peaceful supporters of Democracy, in-
cluding United States citizen Dr. Nguyen Quoc 
Quan, who has been held without charges in 
Vietnam since November 17, 2007; and 
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•HRES 1089 IH 
(C) the President should direct the Sec-
retary of State to establish a Countries of Par-
ticular Concern list to condemn countries like 
Vietnam, which engage in ‘‘particularly severe 
violations’’ of human rights, parallel in struc-
ture to the Countries of Particular Concern list 
for countries with ‘‘particularly severe violations 
of religious freedom,’’ as mandated under the 
International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 
(22 U.S.C. 6401 et seq.). 
Æ 
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