19/02/2003 (Agence Europe) - The Lista Bonino MEP Olivier Dupuis has asked the European Commission what initiatives it intends to take to "make the Hanoi authorities end their persecution of numbers one and two of the Unified Buddhist Church" of Vietnam. The MEP reported on the serious condition of the patriarch Thic Huyen Quang's health, who is 86 and has been held without trial since 1982, and has not even been informed of the reason for his arrest.