“Vietnam ignored our family and ignored the Canadian government, but we were holding onto hope that they would take the United Nations seriously and finally disclose what has happened to my father,” she said in a statement jointly released by the Toronto Association for Democracy in China and the Federation for a Democratic China. Katherine Dong now questions whether the Vietnamese government is accountable to anyone concerning human rights. In a recent reply to the UN, the government said it had no information concerning Dong’s presence in Vietnam.ĭong’s daughter Katherine, who lives in Toronto with her mother, said in November she feared her father had been handed over to Chinese authorities. In mid-December, UN human-rights experts wrote to the Vietnamese government seeking answers about his whereabouts and well-being. There has been no word of Dong’s fate since he was arrested Aug. OTTAWA - Canadian supporters of Dong Guangping, a missing Chinese human-rights defender, are disappointed with what they call a disingenuous response from Vietnamese officials to the United Nations.
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