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Malaysia: Coalition of Malaysian NGOs in the UPR Process (COMANGO) declared an “unlawful organisation”

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and FIDH (the International Federation for Human Rights), requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Malaysia. Brief description of the situation: The Observatory has been informed by reliable sources, including...

Cambodia: Investigate Killing and Injuries of Election Protesters

The Cambodian government should promptly launch an independent and impartial investigation into the apparent excessive use of force by security forces against protesters that killed one person and seriously injured at least 24 others, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should publicly direct the security forces to abide...

Cambodia: Human rights groups condemn excessive use of force

It was 20 years on September 24 since the Cambodian Constitution was first signed, marking the end of the UN transitional authority in the country (Untac). Today’s Constitution was drafted in July and August 1993 by 12 persons. One of them told the local press on Tuesday that, while  the...

Indonesia: TNI Surveillance Purchase Triggers Concern in Indonesia

A leading human rights group has called for increased monitoring of Indonesian Military (TNI) surveillance activities after the defense ministry admitted to purchasing sophisticated spying equipment from a company with a history of supplying oppressive regimes. The Ministry of Defense signed a 4.2 million pound ($6.7 million) deal with the...

Myanmar: Censorship in Burma/Myanmar

I come from a country that has had strict censorship that not only banned freedom of expression, freedom of the press and freedom of speech — which are basic human rights — but also consequently severely limited the development of literature, particularly poetry. As a translator, whenever I compare translations...

Indonesia: Investigate Deadly Shooting in Papua

(New York) – The Indonesian government should impartially investigate the possible use by police officers of unnecessary lethal force against rock-throwing protesters in Papua on September 23, 2013, Human Rights Watch said today. There should also be an inquiry into harassment of victims, medical personnel, and witnesses at a...

Vietnamese blogger and dissident jailed

Hanoi - Le Quoc Quan, 41, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for tax evasion, a charge many human rights groups say is trumped up. Vietnam converted to the free market before 1991, but the repression of journalists in the country remains constant. The case against Quan was...

Vietnam: Lawyer latest victim of government crackdown

Vietnam must immediately release a prominent lawyer and human rights activist who was jailed on politically motivated charges today, Amnesty International said. A court in Vietnam’s capital Ha Noi today sentenced Le Quoc Quan, one of the country’s best known dissidents, to 30 months in prison on trumped-up ‘tax evasion’...

Thailand: Thai monarchy laws need reviewing, say critics pointing to recent cases

A political activist convicted of defaming the Thai monarchy was freed from prison after being granted a royal pardon in the same week that two others were jailed for similar offences despite their cases previously being dismissed by a criminal court. The recent sentences further highlight the "unconditional taboo" of...

Malaysia: Stop the intimidation of indigenous people

About 30 police officers went to stop the ongoing blockade by 300 Penans on the road to the Murum Dam construction site. The Penan communities are in the midst of negotiation with the Sarawak Energy Berhad (SEB) but the SEB has reneged on these negotiations by impounding the dam....