Hundreds of priests and parishioners were attacked by an outnumbered of police and militiamen this mooring in the capital of Hanoi after they submitted their petition to suspend a construction on a land in dispute.
At 8:30 this morning, dozens of Hanoi Redemptorists led a group of hundreds of parishioners to the City’s People’s Committee to submit their urgent petition which asked for the suspension of a hospital sewage treatment system on a parish’ lot of land.
They could manage to hand in their petition. However, on the way home, an outnumbered of police and militiamen stopped them and brutally beat, and arrested dozens of priests and parishioners of Thai Ha Parish.
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