IV 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 334 
Calling on the Government of Vietnam to release from prison, end the deten-
tion without trial, and cease the harassment and house arrest of the 
people who signed the Manifesto on Freedom and Democracy for Viet-
nam, and expressing the sense of Congress that the President should 
encourage Vietnam to release such people from prison and to direct 
the Secretary of State to establish a Countries of Particular Concern 
list to condemn countries like Vietnam, which engage in ‘‘particularly 
severe violations’’ of human rights. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 21, 2009 
Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of California submitted the following resolution; 
which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Calling on the Government of Vietnam to release from pris-
on, end the detention without trial, and cease the harass-
ment and house arrest of the people who signed the 
Manifesto on Freedom and Democracy for Vietnam, and 
expressing the sense of Congress that the President 
should encourage Vietnam to release such people from 
prison and to direct the Secretary of State to establish 
a Countries of Particular Concern list to condemn coun-
tries like Vietnam, which engage in ‘‘particularly severe 
violations’’ of human rights. 
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•HRES 334 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 who signed the Mani-
festo 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, nonviolent 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 11 of these democracy advocates have since been de-
tained by the Government of Vietnam for 18 months or 
more, for signing their names to the Manifesto; 
Whereas at least five other signers of the peaceful, nonviolent 
Manifesto have been harassed and placed under house ar-
rest by the Government of Vietnam; and 
Whereas in addition to the 118 signers of the Manifesto, the 
Government of Vietnam has continued to harass, arrest, 
and detain peaceful, nonviolent supporters of democracy: 
Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That— 
(1) the House of Representatives— 
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•HRES 334 IH 
(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) Nguyen Van Dai, lawyer, sen-
tenced to 5 years; 
(vi) Le Thi Cong Nhan, lawyer, sen-
tenced to 4 years; 
(vii) Tran Quoc Hien, jurist, sen-
tenced to 5 years; 
(viii) Le Van Soc, Hoa Hao Buddhist, 
sentenced to 6 years; 
(ix) Hang Tan Phat, sentenced to 6 
years; 
(x) Truong Quoc Huy, sentenced to 6 
years; 
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•HRES 334 IH 
(xi) Truong Minh Duc, sentenced to 5 
years; 
(xii) Pastor Nguyen Thi Hong, sen-
tenced to 3 years; 
(xiii) Nguyen Van Hai, sentenced to 
2.5 years; 
(xiv) Luong Van Sinh, sentenced to 2 
years; 
(xv) Vu Hoang Hai, sentenced to 2 
years and 2 years probation; 
(xvi) Nguyen Ngoc Quang, sentenced 
to 3 years; 
(xvii) Nguyen Ngoc Quang, sentenced 
to 5 years; and 
(xviii) Doan Van Dien, sentenced to 
an unknown number of years; and 
(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) Le Ba Triet; 
(ii) Ho Thi Bich Khuong; 
(iii) Vu Van Hung; 
(iv) Dang Hung; 
(v) Pham Thanh Nghien; 
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•HRES 334 IH 
(vi) Pham Van Troi; 
(vii) Ngo Quynh; 
(viii) Vu Hung; 
(ix) Nguyen Van Tuc; 
(x) Nguyen Xuan Nghia; 
(xi) Tran Duc Thach; and 
(xii) Le Thi Kim Thu; and 
(C) insists that the Government of Viet-
nam cease harassment, police surveillance, and 
house arrest of those nonviolent democracy ad-
vocates who signed the Manifesto, including— 
(i) Do Nam Hai, co-founder of Bloc 
8406; 
(ii) Tran Khai Thanh Thuy, novelist; 
(iii) Hong Trung, Seventh-day Ad-
ventist pastor; 
(iv) Nguyen Hong Quang, Mennonite 
pastor; 
(v) Pham Ngoc Thach, Mennonite 
evangelist; 
(vi) Nguyen Tan Hoanh (aka Doan 
Huu Chuong), labor rights activist; 
(vii) Somsak Khunmi (aka Nguyen 
Quoc Hai); 
(viii) Nguyen The Vu; and 
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