Tag: Arbitrary Arrest and Detention
Vietnam Dissident Released After Brutal Arrest
A well-known Vietnamese human rights activist has been released from detention, just 24 hours after he says he was brutally arrested inside his home.
Nguyen Bac Truyen says hundreds of police and undercover agents raided his home in southern Dong Thap province Sunday, firing three gunshots before violently taking him...
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...
Rights Group Launches Petition for Release of 21 Demonstrators
WASHINGTON DC — The Asian Human Rights Commission has launched an online petition to pressure the Cambodian government to release 21 union activists and workers charged in connection with labor protests last month.
Twenty-three workers were arrested in a violent crackdown by government police and security forces early January, when...
INDONESIA: Padang police torture and shoot two men to obtain confessions
According to LBH Padang, an unidentified officer took Oki Saputra (19) to Padang Selatan Sub-District Police Station at 1.30 pm of 6 February, 2014. Oki was told that the police would like to question him on the motorcycle theft complaint lodged by his family two days earlier. Yet, upon...
Vietnam dissident beaten ahead of diplomat meeting
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A Vietnamese dissident says unidentified men assaulted him this week as he was heading to a meeting with an Australian diplomat to talk about the human rights situation in the country.
Dissident Nguyen Bac Truyen says men on motorbikes dragged him from a taxi and punched...
THAILAND: Public Seminar on 10th Anniversary of Somchai Neelapaijit’s Enforced Disappearance
Prominent Thai Muslim human rights lawyer, Somchai Neelapaijit, was abducted and subjected to enforced disappearance on 12 March 2004. At the time of his “disappearance”, Somchai Neelapaijit was a lawyer representing those allegedly tortured by police officers in the deep South. Ever since then, human rights organizations have continued...
Police need to change with the times, says Suhakam
Despite the introduction of the Peaceful Assembly Act 2012, police have yet to change their mindset in their handling of public assemblies, a human rights commissioner said.
Malaysian Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) deputy chairperson Professor Datuk Khaw Lake Tee said she has been involved in nine public inquiries held on...
Answers sought in Thailand lawyer’s forced disappearance
Human rights groups are demanding answers from the Thai government regarding the case of missing lawyer Somchai Neelapaijit, who disappeared 10 years ago while representing Muslim clients in Thailand’s restive southern provinces.
“The Royal Thai Government has not exhausted all potential areas of inquiry and it must continue this investigation....
Families concerned Over Jailed Activists on Third Week of Hunger Strike
Families of three Vietnamese activists on the 24th day of their hunger strike in jail on Thursday are concerned over their health condition after authorities rejected requests to visit them.
Bloggers Bui Thi Minh Hang and Nguyen Thi Thuy Quynh and follower of the Hoa Hao Buddhist tradition Nguyen Van...
Thailand’s ‘half-hearted’ probe into fate of missing rights lawyer – ICJ
The family and supporters of a Thai human rights lawyer who disappeared ten years ago, say successive Thai governments made only half-hearted attempts at finding the truth.
Somchai Neelapaijit was defending clients from Thailand's troubled southern provinces, who were accused of attacking a military base.
Mr Somchai, who had alleged police...
