Tag: Freedom of Expression / Information / Speech
Press Freedom Comes Under Threat in Southeast Asia
Dec 30, 2013 (Menafn - Federal Government Documents and Publications/ContentWorks via COMTEX) --Press Freedom Comes Under Threat in Southeast Asia
By Parameswaran Ponnudurai
2013-12-28
Two weeks after a Myanmar newspaper ran a story headlined "When bags of money replace judges in court" - highlighting corruption in the judicial system - one of...
Already a BAD RECORD with Bersih 2 & 3, will Najib go down in history as Malaysia’s MOST BLOODY PM
Back in the eve of 2012 new year, we were embraced with human rights violation by the police force which arrested and injured student activists who protested peacefully against the Universities and Universities Colleges Act (UUCA) at Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI).
With new year of 2014 just few hours...
Myanmar: UN human rights office welcomes presidential pardon for political prisoners
31 December 2013 – The United Nations human rights office today welcomed the presidential pardon granted in Myanmar to political prisoners convicted of or prosecuted for various offences under seven specific laws, including unlawful association, peaceful assembly, treason and sedition.
The pardon, granted yesterday by President Thein Sein, is an...
Thais must agree democracy is worth saving
Thailand is sliding into anarchy, which from experience has meant intervention.
Following a spell of military rule, elections will be called or, more likely, forced on the caretakers. A government could also be appointed via some constitutional artifice.
What follows has not varied much - dissatisfaction over blatant or exaggerated misrule...
Malaysia: NGOs outraged at ban on human rights coalition
The non-governmental organisations that make up the Coalition of Malaysian NGOs in the UPR Process (Comango), which was declared illegal by the Home Ministry today, are outraged at the ban as they say that they are recognised by the United Nations.
Comango member Sisters In Islam (SIS) said the coalition...
Malaysia: COMANGO appalled govt’s active use of Islam as a POLTICAL TOOL to quash human rights
The Coalition of Malaysian NGOs in the UPR Process (COMANGO) is shocked and perturbed that the Chief Secretary of the Home Ministry of Malaysia has declared COMANGO, through a media statement on 8 January 2014, an “unlawful organization” (“pertubuhan haram”) without attaching a gazetted order by the Home Minister...
Pockets of violence amid Thai anti-government protests in Bangkok
Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) -- Violence flared overnight in Bangkok amid anti-government demonstrations intended to drive Thailand's Prime Minister out of office.
Tens of thousands of protesters have disrupted traffic at major intersections and marched on government offices in Thailand's large and hectic capital city this week.
The protests, dubbed "Bangkok shutdown,"...
Vietnamese Authorities Detain Former Political Prisoners Visiting Fellow Dissident
Vietnamese authorities on Tuesday detained and interrogated three former political prisoners, beating one of them severely, as they traveled to visit a fellow ex-prisoner of conscience at his home outside the capital, a member of the group said.
Writer Huynh Ngoc Tuan, blogger Pham Ba Hai and lawyer Le Thi...
2013: A year of religious intolerance in Burma
By Mark Inkey
The past year has seen a rise in religious intolerance against Muslim people in Burma fanned by radical Buddhists whose most vocal spokesperson has been the monk Wirathu.
The problems first surfaced in 2012 in Arakan State when tensions between Buddhists and the minority Muslim Rohingya erupted into...
At least three dead in crackdown on Cambodian strike
PHNOM PENH: Cambodian police opened fire on protesting garment workers Friday, leaving at least three people dead, as the kingdom's strongman premier faced growing public anger on the streets of the capital.
Striking workers armed with sticks, rocks and Molotov cocktails clashed with rifle-wielding police in the Veng Sreng factory...
