Media May 2, 2018 Malaysia’s opposition leader Mahathir under investigation for ‘fake news’ (Reuters) – Malaysian authorities are investigating opposition leader Mahathir Mohamad under an anti-fake news law over claims that his plane was sabotaged in the run up to a general election…
Media May 1, 2018 Myanmar Sentences Policeman who Testified Reuters Reporters were Framed A police officer who testified that police framed two Reuters reporters has been sentenced to an undisclosed prison term for violating Myanmar’s Police Disciplinary Act, a police spokesman told Reuters on Sunday, without elaborating.
Media Apr 30, 2018 Danish Man Is First Person Sentenced Under Malaysia’s Anti-Fake-News Law A Danish citizen in Malaysia has pleaded guilty to maliciously publishing fake news by posting a YouTube video critical of police, making him the first person punished under the country’s…
Media Apr 27, 2018 Myanmar Jails Two Reporters for Exposing a Massacre Last month, Chit Su Win sat on a bench outside a courtroom in Yangon, after visiting her husband, Kyaw Soe Oo, a reporter who was spending his hundredth day in…
Media Apr 27, 2018 Malaysian news company seeks to have anti-fake news law revoked (Reuters) – A Malaysian media company on Friday filed a suit seeking to declare unconstitutional a new law against fake news, which critics say is aimed at curbing dissent and…
Publication Apr 25, 2018 #MeToo activists in China are turning to the blockchain to dodge censorship Chinese internet users have seen posts referring to the country’s #MeToo movement disappear from WeChat, Weibo, and other popular social networks in recent weeks. In particular, posts about an alleged…
Publication Apr 23, 2018 South Korea Silences North Korean Defectors to Appease Kim Jong-un NEW YORK (April 23, 2018) — In a public letter addressed to South Korean President Moon Jae-in, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) denounced two incidents in which South Korean government…
Publication Apr 23, 2018 Shutdown of Pakistani TV network hints at army’s bid for control (The Guardian) – When Pakistan’s largest and by far its most popular television network, Geo, was pushed off the airwaves in at least 80% of the country last month, many…
Media Apr 20, 2018 Rodrigo Duterte, Who Bristles at Foreign Critics, Has Begun Deporting Them MANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, who has chafed at overseas criticism of his strongman style since he was elected to office in 2016, has overseen the deportation…
Publication Apr 17, 2018 HONG KONG: Benny Tai’s Topsy-turvy Taiwan Journey He’s back! Benny Tai is making waves again. No sooner had the Occupy protest effect finally faded than Professor Benny Tai Yiu-ting (戴耀廷) sparked another important political controversy. This time…
Publication Apr 16, 2018 First They Came for the Rohingya In recent months, international media coverage of Myanmar has focused on the plight of the Rohingya people in the west of the country. And for good reason: Since August 2017,…
Publication Apr 12, 2018 Two more activists jailed in Vietnam amid widening dissent crackdown HANOI (Reuters) – Courts in Vietnam handed prison sentences to two activists on Thursday, as the communist-ruled government widens a crackdown on dissent. A court in the northcentral province of…
Media Apr 11, 2018 Chinese Government Forces Residents To Install Surveillance App In Xinjiang, a part of western China that a Muslim minority population calls home, the government forces residents to install an Android app that scans devices for particular files. Now,…
Press Release Apr 10, 2018 Vietnam activist sentenced to 13 years on subversion charges The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) strongly condemns the conviction of Vietnamese dissident Nguyen Van Tuc on the charge of “attempting to overthrow the government” for his participation in a pro-democracy…
Publication Apr 6, 2018 Malaysian Leader Jump-Starts Elections, and Stacks the Odds (The New York Times) – Malaysia’s leader has said he will dissolve Parliament on Saturday, paving the way for the most contentious general elections in the country since it gained…
Publication Apr 5, 2018 Vietnam jails prominent human rights lawyer, five other activists HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnamese human rights lawyer and activist Nguyen Van Dai was jailed for 15 years on Thursday, his wife said, along with five other activists who were given…
Publication Apr 5, 2018 Philippines’ Duterte launched a foul-mouthed attack on UN human rights chief (Daily Times) – President Rodrigo Duterte has launched a foul-mouthed attack on the UN human rights chief, calling him “empty-headed” in a row over international criticism of the Philippine leader’s deadly drug war. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein,…
Publication Apr 4, 2018 China human rights: Wife marches for ‘vanished’ husband The wife of a detained Chinese lawyer has begun a march of more than 100km (62 miles) to try to find answers about his fate. Li Wenzu is walking from…
Media Apr 3, 2018 As Malaysia Moves to Ban ‘Fake News,’ Worries About Who Decides the Truth (The New York Times) – In highway billboards and radio announcements, the government of Malaysia is warning of a new enemy: “fake news.” On Monday, the lower house of Parliament…
Publication Mar 29, 2018 The Disappeared – China’s Global Kidnapping Campaign Before he disappeared from his luxury apartment at the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong on Jan. 27, 2017, Xiao Jianhua, a Chinese-Canadian billionaire, favored female bodyguards. Why, exactly, was…
