E/CN.4/2006/5/Add.1 Page 97 465. Thich Nguyen Vuong, a Buddhist monk member of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV), was reportedly arrested by the Security Police in Ho Chi Minh City on 11 April 2005. He was stopped on his way home after he visited the UBCV Deputy leader, Thich Quang Do, at the Thanh Minh Zen Monastery. Reports indicated that he protested and claimed that the police had no legitimate reason to arrest him and asked if he could get his papers from the monastery but the police refused to let him do so. Several Buddhists from the Thanh Minh Zen Monastery then went outside and surrounded him. He was therefore able to escape from the police and took refuge in the monastery. Concerns had been expressed that the police were still posted outside the building where Thich Nguyen Vuong remained at the time of the communication in order to arrest him if he ever attempted to leave the place. 466. Thich Vien Phuong, another UBCV monk, was also arrested in similar circumstances on 30 March 2005. He was reportedly stopped for a traffic offence after he visited Thich Quang Do and then held in custody for interrogation by security agents who allegedly seized his camera on which there was a message from Thich Quang Do to the United Nations Commission on H uman Rights. Reports indicated that Thich Vien Phuong was subjected to several days of intensive questioning before he was released. Response from the Government dated 14 June 2005 467. The Government indicated that the information and allegations provided to the Special Rapporteur were totally untrue and that that the facts were as follows: 468. Tran Minh Hoang (Thich Nguyen Vuong), born in 1948, resides at Gia Lam pagoda, Go Vap district, Ho Chi Minh City. On 11 April 2005, the traffic police signaled Hoang while he was riding on motorbike to stop him for committing a traffic offence. Hoang did not obey and attempted to run away. The traffic police prevented him from doing so and recorded his offence. Finding that Hoang had no relevant motorbike documents, the police requested him to take his motorbike to a police station opposite to Thanh Minh Zen Monastery. The police also discovered that the number plate of the motorbike that Hoang was riding on was false. On the way to the police station, Hoang fled into the Monastery. On 19 April 2005, a summon order was issued for Hoang to present himself at the police station so that his offence could be processed. Until now, he has not presented himself to the police. 469. Nguyen Thanh Tho (Thich Vien Phuong), born in 1972, temporarily resides at Giac Hoa Pagoda, Binh Thanh district, Ho Chi Minh City. On 30 March 2005, Tho, while riding on motorbike, was stopped by police for a traffic offence. Tho strongly opposed, trying to involve some Buddhist monks to support him in the incident, thus causing public disorder. The police had to take Tho to a police station. 470. Tho was found holding a DVD disc which contained a message from Thich Quang Do slandering the State of Vietnam on religious suppression and human rights violation. The police made a minute on Tho’s traffic offence and his unlawful act (in violation of bullet A, point 5, Article 23 of the Decree 36/CP concerning administrative treatments for cultural offences).