Human Rights Organizations Express Alarm over Potential Thai Extradition of Human Rights Defender to Vietnam

        On July 4, 2024, the UN Office of the High Commission for Human Rights and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) expressed grave concern about Vietnam’s request to Thailand to extradite refugee and human rights defender Y Quynh Bdap, who co-founded Montagnards Stand for Justice, an organization advocating for Indigenous rights in rights in Vietnam. Y Quynh Bdap has lived in Thailand since 2018, where the UN High Commissioner for Refugees recognizes him as a refugee as he awaits resettlement to a third country.