Tag: Arbitrary Arrest and Detention
LAOS: AFAD calls on the UNWGEID for more actions to surface Sombath Somphone
Mugiyanto, Chairperson of Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) calls on the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (UNWGEID) for more serious efforts in addressing the case of Sombath Somphone based on new information it submitted indicating state involvement in his disappearance.
AFAD got information from reliable sources...
BURMA: Free all human rights defenders and stop ongoing arbitrary arrests and imprisonment
Paris-Geneva, November 20, 2013. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, an FIDH-OMCT joint programme, welcomes the latest release of human rights defenders who were among the political prisoners detained in Burma/Myanmar, and now urges the Government to immediately and unconditionally release all those who remain detained...
Nine More Months in Jail for Unrelenting Myanmar Activist
An imprisoned Myanmar activist has been jailed for nine more months as he fights off charges in at least seven townships in the commercial capital Yangon for protesting against a controversial public assembly law and against land grabs.
Htin Kyaw had already been convicted in some of the townships and...
Myanmar’s president pardons 69 political prisoners
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) – Myanmar’s president on Nov. 15 pardoned 69 political prisoners, including two grandsons of a former dictator, as part of a promise to free all such detainees by the end of the year.
Most of those newly freed are members of ethnic minorities, said Ye Aung, who...
Cambodian activist released on bail
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodia’s highest court released an activist on bail Friday after she served more than a year in prison on charges widely condemned as trumped up to silence a government critic.
The Supreme Court sent Yorm Bopha’s case back to the Appeals Court for further investigation and...
Myanmar: RNDP Chairman, 10 others released on bail
Eleven Arakanese nationalists, including a chairman of the Rakhine Nationalities Development Party (RNDP), who were detained in connection with the ethno-religious violence that broke out in October, have been released on bail.
Maung Pu, the Sandoway township chairman of the RNDP, said he and the 10 other members of...
Vietnam UN Rights Tribunal calls for release of Vietnamese lawyer
The detention of Vietnamese blogger, lawyer and human rights activist, Le Quoc Quan, has been condemned by a United Nations human rights tribunal as violating his right to freedom of expression and his right to a fair trial.
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, a tribunal set up under...
Cambodians Regularly Face Pre-Trial Detention: Rights Group
Cambodian authorities frequently hold suspects, especially the young, in detention pending trial, even though the law could allow them to be released on bail while awaiting the completion of their judicial proceedings, according to a report released Wednesday.
Minor crime suspects are also provided a “worryingly low” level of legal...
HRW Urges Cambodia to Shut ‘Unjust’ Detention Centers
Hundreds of drug users, sex workers, beggars and street children are unlawfully detained in Cambodian rehabilitation centers where they face torture, sexual violence and forced labor, a leading rights group said Monday.
New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) called for the immediate closure of eight detention centers that are supposedly...
The Philippines: An ailing man detained for another man freed today
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is pleased to inform you that an ailing man whom we reported earlier to have been arrested and detained in place of another man wanted for murder will be released today. The police arrested him, not because he was the real suspect, but...
