Tag: Freedom of Expression / Information / Speech
International community urged to stop the ‘silent genocide’ of Rohingya Muslims
Glasgow: January 25, 2014. (PCP) A Scotland-based human rights organisation is calling on the international community to intervene in what is being called the ‘silent genocide’ of the Burmese Rohingya Muslims, who the United Nations has called the most persecuted minority group in the world.
Global Minorities Alliance, a human...
Myanmar claims Muslim militants targeted police officer
By Simon Roughneen
YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar's government is continuing to push back against calls for an investigation into the reported massacre of more than 40 Rohingya Muslims in northern Rakhine state, saying that militants had infiltrated the restive region close to the Bangladesh border.
Myanmar’s foreign ministry claimed that an...
Drop Navy Charges Against Phuketwan Pair, Australian Liberty Rights Group Urges Thailand
PHUKET: The following letter has been sent by Liberty Victoria to Thailand's Ambassador in Australia regarding the criminal defamation action being pursued by the Royal Thai Navy against Phuketwan journalists Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian:
The Ambassador.
The Royal Thai Embassy,
111 Empire Circuit,
Yarralumla,
Canberra.
Dear Sir
Liberty Victoria is one of Australia's leading human...
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...
Malaysia: The only real (and unlikely) solution to Allah controversy
By being deluded into thinking that they can gain political mileage from fighting over Allah instead of doing what is morally right, both Barisan Nasional (BN) and Pakatan Rakyat (PR) could end up sacrificing support from the very communities they depend on.
More than that, they also risk sacrificing the...
Thailand: OHCHR calls on all sides to respect rights of others
BANGKOK, 26 January 2014 – The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is calling on all sides involved in the Thai political deadlock to be respectful and not violate the rights of other people.
In light of the Thai government’s announcement to impose the state...
Thai protest leader shot dead as demonstrators block polls
BANGKOK – Anti-government demonstrators swarmed dozens of polling stations in Thailand on Sunday to stop advance voting for next week’s general elections, chaining gates shut, threatening voters and preventing hundreds of thousands of people from casting ballots.
A protest faction leader was fatally shot in a confrontation near a voting...
One dead as Thai protesters force closure of advance polling stations
BANGKOK, Thailand — Anti-government demonstrators swarmed dozens of polling stations in Thailand on Sunday to stop advance voting for next week’s general elections, chaining gates shut, threatening voters and preventing hundreds of thousands of people from casting ballots.
A protest faction leader was fatally shot in a confrontation near a...
‘Communist’ Still a Dirty Word in Indonesia
JAKARTA — Nearly 50 years after an anti-communist purge that left at least 500,000 Indonesians dead, anti-communist fervor is still heated.
Herman Koto, an Indonesian gangster and paramilitary leader, describes how he’d love to get his hands on some communist women.
“If they’re pretty, I’d rape them all,” he says. As...
Cambodia: New deadlock but old tactics, analysts say
Ahead of today’s hearing on Cambodia’s record at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, opposition figures and analysts said the ruling Cambodian People’s Party has reverted to familiar tactics of post-election suppression.
Analysts yesterday said that the breaking up of Cambodia National Rescue Party-led protests at Freedom Park and...
