Tag: Rule of Law / Justice
PHILIPPINES: A political activist and his family were shot at while asleep in their home
On 7 January 2014, at 12:30 am, Elioforo Abrahan, his wife, Rita; and their two children were sleeping inside their hut when unidentified armed men shot at their house in Barangay Kinabalan, Malungon, Sarangani province. Elioforo and his family dropped to the ground for safety. The shooting lasted for...
Ombudsman orders suspension of CHR commissioner
MANILA, Philippines - The Office of the Ombudsman has ordered the immediate preventive suspension of a Commission on Human Rights (CHR) official, who was sued by a former employee for various allegations of misconduct.
In an order dated Feb. 14, 2014, the Ombudsman ordered Cecilia Rachel V. Quisumbing suspended without...
INDONESIA: Police defy court order to pay compensation to shooting victim
According to the PBHI, Iwan (28) was shot on 20 January 2006. On that afternoon, Iwan and his friend were cooking in a hut when law enforcement agent Novrizal, who was in civilian clothes, came and asked both Iwan and his friend to come out of the hut. Novrizal...
His father’s son?
WE’VE HEARD this tune before, for example whenever Benigno Aquino III is accused of not doing anything about extrajudicial killings and the killing of journalists (he claims the latter’s "not serious"), decorates and promotes police and military officers involved in torture and illegal detention, or simply ignores complaints about...
Vietnamese Dissident, Wife Attacked En Route to Meeting With Diplomat
A prominent Vietnamese dissident and his wife were dragged from a taxi and beaten by suspected police agents this week while traveling to meet with an Australian diplomat in Hanoi to press for the release of fellow activists detained after a police raid on his house.
Nguyen Bac Truyen,...
INDONESIA: Padang police torture and shoot two men to obtain confessions
According to LBH Padang, an unidentified officer took Oki Saputra (19) to Padang Selatan Sub-District Police Station at 1.30 pm of 6 February, 2014. Oki was told that the police would like to question him on the motorcycle theft complaint lodged by his family two days earlier. Yet, upon...
Watchdog accuses Myanmar of crimes against humanity
BANGKOK - The Myanmar government has been accused of crimes against humanity and breaches of international law over “long running persecution and discrimination” against Muslim Rohingya citizens.
The claims were made by an independent human rights group, which told a press conference in Bangkok Tuesday night that it had obtained...
Cambodian opposition leader accused of touting anti-Vietnamese racism
As violent anti-government protests raged in the Cambodian capital, cafe owner Sok Minh hoped concentrating on his small business would keep him sheltered from the violence.
But that changed in January, when rioters stormed his shop, chanting "Yuon", a derogatory term used against the Vietnamese community.
"When they came in, they...
The human rights challenge
This won’t sit well with the daang matuwid administration, but the US State Department has just released a report that ranks corruption and abuse of power among the most significant human rights problems in the Philippines.
Every year, as mandated by US law, the State Department comes up with a...
Philippine activists slam ‘hypocritical’ US rights report
Human rights group Karapatan said on Monday that a report from the US on human rights abuses in the Philippines is "hypocritical." It also claimed that the US is responsible for abuses in the country.
"The US government foments human rights abuses in the Philippines by filling up the military...
