Y Quynh Bdap fled to Thailand after conviction on terrorism charges, calling the decision politically motivated retaliation
Six years ago, religious freedom activist Y Quynh Bdap fled his native Vietnam for Thailand , where he applied for refugee status with the United Nations and began the long process of seeking asylum in Canada .
through his organization Montagnards Stand for Justice, which advocates on behalf of a Christian ethnic minority living in the country’s central highlands and long subject to discrimination and repression, according to international human rights groups. In a video recorded earlier this month, Mr. Bdap said the Vietnamese authorities “have been hunting me down,” and that “many people in the refugee community have been arrested and interrogated” by the Thai police to “force them to reveal my whereabouts.”
Mr. Swanton said the Vietnamese activist “is sitting in a Thai jail today because Global Affairs Canada made a conscious choice to delay his asylum application,” adding his organization had alerted the Canadian embassy to the risks Mr. Bdap was facing “but the government chose not to help him.”
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