Tag: Rule of Law / Justice
Cambodia: UN to review detention sites
Some four years after its first visit in 2009 – and one day after the release of a scathing report detailing torture in Cambodia’s drug detention centres – the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) will spot-check the Kingdom’s detention facilities on their compliance with a UN anti-torture...
Thailand: Court to read verdict in freedom of expression case
On 11 December 2013, at 9 am in the Bangkok Southern Criminal Court on Sathorn Road, the Supreme Court verdict will be read in the case of Bantit (last name withheld), charged with violating Article 112 of the Criminal Code in Black Case No. 725/2548 (Red Case No. 1483/2549),...
Rights Groups Press for Release of Leading Vietnam Dissident
A coalition of human rights organizations have issued an open letter calling for the release of prominent Vietnamese blogger, lawyer and human rights activist, Le Quoc Quan.
In an interview with VOA's Vietnamese service, Benjamin Ismail, the head of the Asia-Pacific Desk at Reporters Without Borders, said his organization together...
New Study Sees ‘No End in Sight’ to Cambodia’s Land Conflicts
Vague policies and weak implementation of the law are fueling a rapid rise in land disputes in Cambodia as the government grants land concessions through a system which benefits the political elite, a new two-year study showed Thursday.
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), which conducted the study, called...
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...
The Philippines: Political Detainees freed on Human Rights Day
Three (3) Muslim victims of arbitrary arrest and detention were released last December 10, 2013, Human Rights Day after the Taguig Regional Trial Court's decision that they were victims of mistaken identity.
Mujeener Dagam Cabalo and his two other co-accused were released from the Special Intensive Care Area of the...
RI faces human rights ’emergency’
Indonesia is in a state of emergency regarding human rights violations, according to the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM), the National Commission on Violence against Women (Komnas Perempuan) and the National Commission for Child Protection (Komnas PA).
"With the increase of rights violations, unresolved past cases and the...
Thai Protests: Fake Elections are Unacceptable
The Western media portrays the current political unrest in Thailand as “elite vs. rural poor” struggle between Thailand’s establishment and the political machine of Thaksin Shinawatra which it claims is “democratically elected” and therefore “legitimate.” It repeatedly reminds readers of how Thaksin’s opposition has failed to win in elections...
Fresh rally as Cambodian opposition demand new poll
Thousands of Cambodian opposition supporters today 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.
Around 5,000 protesters, many waving Cambodian flags and banners, massed in a park in the capital Phnom Penh early...
The Philippines: Political Detainees freed on Human Rights Day
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December 13, 2013
Three (3) Muslim victims of arbitrary arrest and detention were released last December 10, 2013, Human Rights Day after the Taguig Regional Trial Court’s decision that they were victims of mistaken identity.
Mujeener Dagam Cabalo and his two other co-accused were released from the Special Intensive Care...
