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Malaysia: Home Ministry outlaws Comango, labels member groups ‘un-Islamic’

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 8 — The Home Ministry today banned a coalition of non-government organisations (NGOs) that was outspoken on human rights, alleging the majority of groups under its umbrella were un-Islamic and unregistered. In a statement from the ministry’s secretary-general today, it said the Coalition on Malaysian NGOs in...

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...

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...

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,...

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...