A group of United Nations human rights experts has issued a joint communication to the Vietnamese government demanding clarity, accountability, and justice over the detention, enforced disappearance, and death in custody of Tulku Hungkar Dorje, a revered Tibetan Buddhist leader who died in Vietnam after being detained in a joint operation involving Vietnamese and Chinese authorities.
The letter, registered as AL VNM 4/2025 and dated 8 August 2025, was sent by four UN mandates — the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention; the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances; the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions; and the Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues.





