The report stated that 17 monks, community activists, and human rights defenders have been improperly arrested, convicted, and sentenced for exercising their rights to freedom of religion or belief, expression, association, peaceful assembly, or participation in cultural life. Some detainees were reportedly tortured or mistreated during pretrial detention.
The cases stem from a series of arrests and violent raids on sites linked to the Tro Nom Sek Temple in Vinh Long province. The Buddhist temple has resisted pressure to join the state-sanctioned Vietnam Buddhist Sangha, which has resulted in partial demolition of temple structures, disruption of Khmer language classes, and forcible defrocking of monks, as well as the targeting of human rights defenders documenting these events.
Does anyone know more about this? According to the linked pdf there are two different groups of Theravada monastics:
