Tag: Freedom of Expression / Information / Speech
Myanmar: Latest releases a step towards freedom for all prisoners of conscience by year’s end – UN rights expert
GENEVA (11 December 2013) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar, Tomás Ojea Quintana, on Wednesday welcomed the release of 44 prisoners of conscience in the country.
“Today marked another step towards fulfilling the President’s pledge to release all political prisoners by the end...
Myanmar claims promoting human rights at home in 2013
YANGON, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar's National Human Rights Commission claimed on Wednesday that it was able to intensify its activities to promote and protect human rights by conducting certain outreach activities for the first time, citing the commission's visits to a number of sensitive areas in the country...
The Philippines: Killing of journalists a nat’l catastrophe
Radio journalist Rogelio Butalid lies dead outside the Radyo Natin station in Tagum City after being shot by a lone gunman on Wednesday. Butalid (inset) was also a village councilor. FRINSTON LIM/INQUIRER MINDANAO
An international human rights watchdog has urged President Aquino to declare the deadly attacks on Filipino journalists...
Indonesia: Intimidation of Ahmadis escalates in Singkut, Jambi
According to Padang Legal Aid Institute (LBH Padang) and Ahmad Ilyas from the Indonesian Ahmadi Congregation (JAI), some 250-300 villagers and members of the Indonesian Islamic Student Association (Persatuan Mahasiswa Islam Indonesia, PMII) Sorolangun conducted a ‘protest’ at the office of JAI Singkut at 10:30 a.m. on 4 December...
Thousands rally for new poll in Cambodia
PHNOM PENH: Thousands of Cambodian opposition supporters on Sunday staged a fresh demonstration against Prime Minister Hun Sen’s hotly disputed July election win, calling for a new poll to settle allegations of vote rigging.
An estimated 10,000 protesters, many waving Cambodian flags and banners, massed in a park in the...
UN Tribunal Condemns the Vietnamese Government for Its Arbitrary Detention of Journalist and Lawyer Le Quoc Quan
Last week, a United Nations Rights Tribunal condemned the Vietnamese government for the arbitrary detention of Le Quoc Quan, a prominent lawyer, blogger, and human rights activist who has been imprisoned since December 27, 2012. EFF submitted a petition in March of this year with 11 other advocacy groups calling on...
ASEAN Calls for Peaceful Solution To Anti-Government Protests in Thailand
BANGKOK, Dec 16 (Bernama) -- Asean member countries have called on all parties concerned to resolve the anti-government protests in Thailand "through dialogue and consultations in a peaceful and democratic manner," Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported.
A statement posted on the website of Brunei Foreign Affairs Ministry and Trade said...
Bloggers celebrated in Paris, arrested and beaten in Vietnam
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The political police have been arresting and mistreating bloggers in Vietnam in recent days, both before and after an 8 December ceremony in Paris at which the Vietnam Human Rights Network and the...
Lao PDR: The Sombath crisis has implications for ASEAN
Editorial Opinion
It reads like fiction straight from a Colin Cotterill novel. The setting is Vientiane, capital city of the People's Democratic Republic of Laos.
Sombath Somphone is a gentle and unassuming man aged 63. Married to a Singaporean, Dr Ng Shui Meng, a former senior Unicef official, Mr Sombath was...
Lao PDR: Government Must Account for Fate of Sombath Somphone
The ICJ today urged the Lao PDR government to reverse its inaction in determining the fate of community activist Sombath Somphone, who was allegedly subjected to enforced disappearance a year ago.
In a legal memorandum on the one-year anniversary of Sombath’s enforced disappearance, the ICJ called on the Lao authorities...
