Tag: Freedom of Expression / Information / Speech
Defamation on stage? Theatre group in Thai junta crosshairs
Forced overseas to avoid arrest for defaming the Thai monarchy, members of a theatre group say the ruling junta has mired the kingdom in a witch-hunt as it ramps up prosecutions under the country’s notorious lese majeste laws.
Published: January 5, 2015 12:28 PM
BANGKOK, Jan 5 — Forced overseas to...
PM insists lese majeste law needed
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha insisted on Thursday the monarchy needs the lese majeste law to legally protect the institution.
Published: 19/12/2014 at 08:46 AM
Newspaper section: News
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha insisted on Thursday the monarchy needs the lese majeste law to legally protect the institution.
Gen Prayut said Section 112 of the...
Monitors urge Indonesia censors to lift ban on massacre film
Rights groups are urging the Indonesian government's film censors to lift a ban on the controversial documentary The Look of Silence, which tells the story of massacres carried out during a communist purge in the 1960s.
Government says 'The Look of Silence' is divisive, promotes Communism
Ryan Dagur and Katharina R....
Myanmar protesters gather ahead of UN rights visit
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside an airport in restive western Myanmar on Thursday in protest against a planned human rights visit by a United Nations envoy, police said.
Update: 13:33, 08 January 2015 Thursday
World Bulletin / News Desk
Yanghee Lee, the UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar, arrived in Sittwe, the capital...
Malaysia activist convicted of sedition
Malaysian court on Friday convicted a political activist of sedition, the latest government critic found guilty under the controversial colonial-era law.
Published: 9/01/2015 at 01:23 PM
KUALA LUMPUR — A Malaysian court on Friday convicted a political activist of sedition, the latest government critic found guilty under the controversial colonial-era law.
Kuala...
Putrajaya fails again to ban book by Irshad Manji
The government today lost its bid to set aside the lifting of a ban on the controversial book, "Allah, Kebebasan dan Cinta" in the Court of Appeal, which ruled that a ban on the Bahasa Malaysia translation was illogical since the English version by Canadian author Irshad Manji had...
Malaysia a ‘human rights disaster zone’, rights watchdog claims after lawyer’s arrest
Lawyer Eric Paulsen's arrest yesterday over a tweet on the country's federal Islamic authority shows a looming “human rights disaster” here, a global rights watchdog said.
Published: January 13, 2015 08:43 AM
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 13 ― Lawyer Eric Paulsen's arrest yesterday over a tweet on the country's federal Islamic authority...
Open letter to Najib on use of Sedition Act – Salil Shetty
I am writing to express Amnesty International’s deep concern about the alarming use of the colonial-era 1948 Sedition Act to stifle peaceful dissent in Malaysia, as part of a recent crackdown on freedom of expression in the country.
Published: 13 January 2015
I am writing to express Amnesty International’s deep concern...
Facebook defamation case in Indonesia highly criticised
Activists have criticised the Yogyakarta Prosecutor's Office for appealing to the Supreme Court regarding the Bantul District Court's acquittal of Ervani Emy Handayani in a Facebook defamation case.
Bambang MuryantoThe Jakarta Post/Asia News NetworkWednesday, Jan 14, 2015
YOGYAKARTA - Activists have criticised the Yogyakarta Prosecutor's Office for appealing to the Supreme...
Human rights lawyer Paulsen freed after statement recorded
Police have released human rights lawyer Eric Paulsen this afternoon, after recording his statement over a remark he made on Twitter that the Malaysian Islamic Development Department (Jakim) was promoting extremism during Friday sermons.
The Malaysian Insider – Wed, Jan 14, 2015
Police have released human rights lawyer Eric Paulsen this...
