Tag: Freedom of Assembly / Association / Union
Viet Nam: Police harass and intercept UBCV monks and lay-followers to prevent celebrations of Buddhism’s Memorial Day in Hue
PARIS, 8 January 2014 (IBIB) – Buddhists in the central city of Hue inform the International Buddhist Information Bureau (IBIB) that Police and security forces are intercepting, harassing and intimidating monks, nuns and lay-followers of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) to prevent them from organizing a Memorial...
Amnesty International criticises Malaysia ban on rights group
The group said the government's move to make the Coalition of Malaysia NGOs (Comango) illegal was a "disturbing assault on freedom of expression".
The Home Ministry on Wednesday said some of the 54 groups in Comango were not registered with the government.
It also said some of Comango's objectives, including promoting...
MALAYSIA, A LOST NATION! Home Ministry BANS Comango
The Home Ministry has banned the Coalition of Malaysian NGOs (Comango), which had presented its version of Malaysian human rights standards at the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) last year.
In a statement today, the ministry said the Registrar of Societies has checked its records and found that the coalition is...
Malaysia: Pua: Putrajaya caving to right-wing pressure with Comango ban
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 9 — DAP MP Tony Pua accused Putrajaya today of pandering to the will of right-wing groups with its sudden decision to ban Comango, the human rights group that has been criticising the government’s treatment of minority groups here.
The ban, announced at a time when public...
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...
UN urges Myanmar to probe sectarian killings
YANGON, Jan 24 — The United Nations has called on Myanmar to investigate reports that dozens of men, women and children were killed in attacks on Rohingya Muslims in the country’s strife-torn Rakhine state.
The UN said it had received “credible information” of a series of attacks in a remote...
Assembly law gives ‘life’ to rally rights, court told
PUTRAJAYA, Jan 23 — Putrajaya’s controversial assembly law does not violate an individual’s constitutional right to rally but helps facilitate it instead, a government lawyer told the Court of Appeal today.
DPP Wan Shaharuddin Wan Ladin defended Section 9 of the Peaceful Assembly Act (PAA) 2012 — which stipulates a...
Indonesia urged to open West Papua to journalists
At the launch of its 2014 World Report on Wednesday, Human Rights Watch called on the government to lift the ban on foreign journalists entering the volatile provinces of Papua and West Papua.
The report details multiple acts of violence between state security forces and Free Papua Organization (OPM) activists...
Thailand: Obstruction of advance voting condemned
FIDH and its member organization Union for Civil Liberty (UCL) today condemn the illegal actions of anti-government protestors who prevented voters from casting advance ballots ahead of a general election scheduled for 2 February 2014.
“Blocking citizens from exercising their voting rights is a serious violation of Thai laws and...
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,...
