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Washington D.C., Jul 12, 2012 \/ 12:07 am (CNA<\/a>).- Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) has called for the firing of U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam David Shear, charging that he has marginalized human rights and religious freedom concerns.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cSadly, his sidelining of serious human rights issues in Vietnam is symptomatic of this administration's overall approach to human rights and religious freedom,\u201d the congressman said in a July 9 letter to President Barack Obama. \u201cTime and again these issues are put on the back-burner \u2014 to the detriment of freedom-loving people the world over.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tRep. Wolf said that U.S. embassies should be \u201cislands of freedom \u2013 especially in repressive countries like Vietnam,\u201d but he criticized the U.S. embassy in Vietnam for appearing to not play this role.<\/p>\n

\tRep. Wolf, who co-chairs the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, cited embassy inaction in the case of Vietnamese-American democracy activist and U.S. citizen Dr. Nguyen Quoc Quan, who was imprisoned after he was detained upon arrival at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City this past April.<\/p>\n

\tThe embassy did not initiate contact with Quan\u2019s wife until Rep. Wolf asked. The congressman said there seemed to be \u201clittle urgency to securing his release.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tHe said that Ambassador Shear also failed to invite many of the most prominent democracy and human rights activists in Vietnam to the U.S. embassy\u2019s July 4 celebration, despite Rep. Wolf\u2019s urging that he open the embassy to Buddhist<\/a> monks and nuns, Catholic priests, Protestant pastors and bloggers and democracy activists.<\/p>\n

\tRep. Wolf said that the ambassador should be replaced by a Vietnamese-American who would not be \u201ctempted to maintain smooth bilateral relations at all costs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tIn recent years Catholics have sought the return of confiscated Church property, but the dispute with the Vietnamese government has sometimes turned violent.<\/p>\n

\tThe government has also previously arrested Fr. Nguyen Van Ly, a religious freedom advocate, on charges of spreading anti-communist propaganda.<\/p>\n

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