Tag: Arbitrary Arrest and Detention
Cambodian Security Forces Clash With Protesters
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia—Cambodian security forces clashed with hundreds of workers and opposition supporters who took to the streets in defiance of a ban on protests in the capital on Sunday, leaving at least 10 people injured.
The skirmishes occurred as military police and riot-control officers tried to stop protesters from...
Cambodia: UN asked to ‘address crisis’
Amnesty International and rights group Licadho in a joint statement yesterday called on UN member states to “address the country’s human rights crisis” at a UN Human Rights Council hearing in Geneva on Tuesday.
The statement, which was sent to foreign embassies, the Cambodian government and country missions in Geneva,...
Philippine cops have ‘torture chamber, use it for amusement’
MANILA The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has revealed the existence of a secret police “torture chamber” in Laguna province in Southern Luzon where the detainees were reportedly maltreated for the “amusement” of policemen whenever they got drunk.
Loretta Rosales, the CHR chairman, told a media briefing the chamber was...
Thai police raid illegal border camp holding Rohingyas
(CNN) -- Thai police detained hundreds of Muslim Rohingya following a raid on a suspected people-trafficking camp, police said.
A Royal Thai Police spokesman said 531 men, women and children were detained following a raid on Sunday at a camp near the town of Sadao in the southern province of...
SC gives probers access to papers that may identify Burgos abductor
MANILA, Philippines—The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed human rights investigators access to military documents that might lead to the identification of a male member of the military suspected of being the abductor of activist Jonas Burgos.
In the first of two issues the court resolved on Tuesday, it allowed the...
West denounces repression of bloggers, religions in Vietnam
GENEVA (Reuters) - Western countries on Wednesday denounced Vietnam's jailing of bloggers and curbs on the Internet and called on its Communist government to respect basic freedoms of worship and expression.
Britain's diplomat Ruth Tumer told the Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Council that her country regretted "recent trends to control...
INDONESIA: Jakarta court’s conviction on two street singers is a miscarriage of justice
Johanes Gea of the Jakarta Legal Aid Institute (LBH Jakarta) informed the AHRC that the South Jakarta District Court sentenced Andro Supriyanto and Nurdin Prianto to seven years of imprisonment on 17 January, 2014. A panel of judges – consisting of judges Soehartono, Syamsul Edy and Suwanto – declared...
CHR to sign agreement against involuntary disappearance
MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) announced on Wednesday, February 5, that it will sign a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), the Department of National Defense (DND) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) on the implementation of...
Abducted, tortured and jailed NDFP consultant freed in Philippines
CEBU (Mindanao Examiner / Feb. 8, 2014) – A peace consultant of the leftist National Democratic Front of the Philippines, who was abducted, tortured and jailed by Philippine authorities, has been freed after a local court dismissed rebellion charges against him, the human rights group called Karapatan said.
Ramon Patriarca,...
Cambodia: Free Activists; Revoke Assembly Ban
(Bangkok) – Cambodian authorities should release 21 activists and workers held since early January 2014, 12 international human rights and labor rights organizations said today in an open letter to Prime Minister Hun Sen. The 21 are among 23 people detained during and after a crackdown on strikes and...
