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Thích Huyền Quang (19 September 1919 – 5 July 2008) was a Vietnamese Buddhist monk dissident and activist. At the time he was the Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam a currently banned organisation in his homeland. He was notable for his activism for human and religious rights in Vietnam. In 1977 Quang wrote a letter to then-Prime Minister Phạm Văn Đồng detailing counts of oppression by the communist regime.