Tag: Freedom of Expression / Information / Speech
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...
U.N. official calls for end to political gridlock in Cambodia
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- A United Nations official Friday urged Cambodian government and opposition officials to keep negotiating in an effort to end a political impasse.
At the end of a five-day visit to Cambodia, Surya P. Subedi, the U.N. special rapporteur on the human rights situation...
Indonesia: Rights commission warns of intensifying abuse in 2014
The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) warned that 2014 could be an “emergency” year for rights violations.
As political candidates will be contesting the legislative and presidential elections this year, they could use sensitive issues regarding religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation and race to further their own interests.
Komnas HAM...
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...
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...
Thailand: Rights Abuses Go Unchecked
(Bangkok) – The government of Thailand made little progress over the past year in resolving persistent human rights problems in the country, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2014.
“Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s promises to bring national reconciliation and justice to victims of the 2010 violence have...
