Stock Photo - Feb. 26, 2012 - Fast For Human Rights And Religious Freedom In Vietnam Under a quotation from the Bible (Isaiah 2-4) carved in stone opposite the UN bldgs. the ven Dr. Thich Giac Duc, president of the Buddhist Congregational Church of America (Washington) fasting with the request that 1. The UN send an investigation team to Vietnam to meet with Buddhist leaders 2. Free Buddhist nations protest against gross violations of human rights in Vietnam. 3. Vietnamese authorities cease from turning temples into offices and forbidding Buddhist scriptures written after 1930. OPS:- The ven. Dr. Thich Giac Duc on the 6th day of his hunger strike. (Credit Image: © Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com)