Tag: Arbitrary Arrest and Detention
Philippines: Three tortured and falsely charged activists freed
Dear Friends,
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is pleased to inform you that the three community organizers whom were reported to have been illegally arrested, tortured, detained and falsely charged in November 2009, have been released after they were exonerated from the charges against them.
UPDATED INFORMATION:
In our appeal in...
Malaysia: COA upholds High Court verdict on unlawful arrest
PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal today upheld a High Court decision which found the police liable for the unlawful arrest of five human rights lawyers and an activist who took part in the Human Rights Day Walk in Kuala Lumpur in 2007, and ordered them to pay RM10,000 in...
Malaysia: Government’s appeal over Rights Day 2007 arrests thrown out
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 20 — The Court of Appeal today upheld an earlier decision that the arrests of five lawyers and an activist during a 2007 demonstration for human rights to be unlawful.
The court also dismissed challenges filed by the lawyers over the same matter, and remained silent on...
Viet Nam: Inside Hanoi’s Torture Chambers
Talk about impeccable timing. No sooner has Vietnam taken its place as a new member of the United Nations Human Rights Council this month than a major report documents Hanoi's widespread use of torture on political and religious prisoners. Cynicism about the U.N. shouldn't dim outrage over the contrast.
Many...
Chin: Asylum Seekers Face Discrimination
Recent political reforms have not improved conditions in Myanmar’s northwestern Chin State, but life in neighbouring India - where many Chin people continue to seek asylum and livelihoods - often means surviving without legal protection and encountering tensions with host communities, experts say.
A 1988 uprising against the Burmese military government...
Human Rights Watch: PH fails in ending impunity
MANILA, Philippines—The Philippine government failed to end impunity in extrajudicial killings, torture and enforced disappearances, an international group said Monday.
In its World Report 2014, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the weak nature of human rights protections in the Philippines is reflected in the unprecedented killings of journalists with little...
Vietnam: Communist Party Tightens Grip
(New York) – Activists were increasingly targeted by the Vietnamese authorities in 2013, worsening a trend of politically motivated convictions against peaceful critics, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2014.
“Escalating repression is putting the Vietnamese government on a collision course with an increasingly politically aware and...
A Promise Proves Not a Promise in Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia—A recent report by a prominent human-rights group said Malaysia backtracked on promised legal reforms and restored repressive laws following an election that saw the ruling coalition return to power significantly weakened.
In an annual report that assesses that state of human rights around the globe, New York-based...
Cambodia: Harassment, arrest, and detention of human rights defenders continue
Phnom Penh, Paris, Geneva, January 22 – FIDH and the OMCT, within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC), the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO), and the Cambodian Center for...
Cambodian Activists Deliver Petitions to Foreign Embassies
More than 200 Cambodian activists and monks submitted petitions to foreign embassies in the capital Phnom Penh on Thursday calling for pressure on Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government to release 23 protesters
More than 200 Cambodian activists and monks submitted petitions to foreign embassies in the capital Phnom Penh on...
