12/02/2003 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission and its Member States have called on the Vietnamese authorities to release the Venerable Thich Huyen Quang, Patriarch of the banned United Buddhist Church of Vietnam (banned since 1981) and his Deputy, Thich Quang Do, since "the Commission esteems that none of the charges laid against the two men justifies their imprisonment or house arrest". This is what European External Relations Commissioner Chris Patten wrote in his reply to a written...