{"id":30817,"date":"2023-09-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csw-yeo.1wp.site\/reports\/hrc54-oral-statement-during-agenda-item-3-general-debate-6073\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T19:39:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T18:39:39","slug":"hrc54-oral-statement-during-agenda-item-3-general-debate-6073","status":"publish","type":"reports","link":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/reports\/hrc54-oral-statement-during-agenda-item-3-general-debate-6073\/","title":{"rendered":"HRC54: Oral statement during Agenda Item 3 General Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/033a0b2321c355a4ef9b751791847bb8.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"text-align: center\"><b>Item 3:<\/b>General Debate<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"text-align: center\"><b>Organisation:<\/b>Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"text-align: center\"><b>Speaker:<\/b>Ellis Heasley<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you Mr President,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CSW welcomes the release of human rights defender Nguyen Bac Truyen from prison in Vietnam, however we maintain that he should never have been imprisoned in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Truyen was clearly targeted by the Vietnamese authorities for his efforts to stand up for vulnerable communities \u2013 including those targeted on account of their religion or belief \u2013 and the 11-year prison sentence he received for \u2018carrying out activities aimed at overthrowing the government\u2019 was a grave injustice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are many others like him who remain in prison today, including the activists Nguyen Trung Ton, Pham Van Troi and Truong Minh Duc \u2013 all of whom were tried and sentenced on the same charge and at the same time as Nguyen Bac Truyen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We call for their immediate and unconditional release, and for that of all other prisoners of conscience in Vietnam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are similarly concerned by the significant number of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in Cuba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many were arrested in relation to their participation in the July 2021 protests, including Protestant Pastor Lorenzo Rosales Fajardo, brothers Jorge Martin and Nadir Perdomo, and the leader of the Association of Free Yorubas Loreto Hernandez Garcia and his wife Donaida P\u00e9rez Paseiro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CSW is concerned that these individuals and others have been subjected to physical mistreatment, humiliation and harassment on account of their religious beliefs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Again, we call for their immediate and unconditional release, and urge Member States to condemn the Cuban government\u2019s unconscionable treatment of political prisoners and their families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CSW welcomes the release of human rights defender Nguyen Bac Truyen from prison in Vietnam, however we maintain that he should never have been imprisoned in the first place.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":44812,"template":"","categories":[],"regions":[159,164],"class_list":["post-30817","reports","type-reports","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","regions-international-arenas","regions-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports\/30817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reports"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports\/30817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37112,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports\/30817\/revisions\/37112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30817"},{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=30817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}