Seventeen human rights organizations and advocates have joined the growing chorus around the world urging Vietnam’s Communist government to disclose the location, status, and health of Christian Y Quynh Bdap.

Bdap, a Montagnard Christian who had fled religious persecution in Vietnam and was a UNHCR Refugee in Thailand since 2018, was controversially and covertly extradited to Vietnam from Bangkok on Nov. 25.

Since the extradition, the Vietnamese government has provided no information to Bdap’s family, lawyers, and global organizations who are following and advocating in this case.

This extradition of a registered refugee to the country they fled is another example of transnational repression where authoritarian governments pursue dissenting citizens in different countries.

“International Christian Concern is extremely concerned about Bdap’s situation because this puts at risk the thousands of other Christian refugees around the world who are in a new country awaiting resettlement,” an ICC staffer who works in Southeast Asia said.

These refugees fled persecution in their home countries, but are being repersecuted, harassed, and now extradited from so-called “safer countries” where they are refugees.

Among the organizations that united to make the statement are ACAT Burundi (Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture), 112 Watch, and Children Education Society (CHESO) in Tanzania.

“Please continue to pray for Bdap’s health and safety and his wife and family, who are still refugees in Thailand,” the ICC staffer said, “and other Christian refugees who are extremely worried since this illegal extradition.”

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