Publication Feb 8, 2018 ICC to open preliminary probes in Philippines, Venezuela Feb 8, 2018 (The Washington Post) – The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court announced Thursday that she is opening preliminary probes into alleged crimes by police and security forces in the Philippines…
Publication Feb 7, 2018 Kenya deports opposition lawyer charged with treason (Reuters) – Kenyan authorities deported a lawyer charged with treason for attending the symbolic presidential inauguration of opposition leader Raila Odinga, prompting a rare rebuke from the Chief Justice who…
Publication Feb 7, 2018 Tajik Election Law Changes Seen Favoring President’s Son (Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty) – The lower chamber of Tajikistan’s parliament has approved amendments to the laws on presidential and parliamentary elections — lowering the eligibility age from 35…
Publication Feb 6, 2018 Air strikes pound Syria’s last rebel strongholds, gas chokes civilians (Reuters) – Warplanes launched heavy attacks on the two last major rebel-held areas in Syria, killing at least 29 people in the Ghouta suburb near the capital and choking people…
Publication Feb 6, 2018 Azerbaijani Opposition Coalition To Boycott Early Election (Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty) – The head of Azerbaijan’s opposition National Council of Democratic Forces says the coalition will boycott an early presidential election that has been scheduled for…
Media Feb 6, 2018 Hong Kong Court Throws Out Protest Leaders’ Prison Sentences HONG KONG — Three leaders of protests that filled Hong Kong streets for weeks had their prison sentences thrown out by Hong Kong’s highest court on Tuesday, in a case…
Publication Feb 5, 2018 Azerbaijan Schedules Snap Presidential Election In April (Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty) – Long-ruling President Ilham Aliyev has brought the date of Azerbaijan’s presidential election forward by more than six months, to April 11, in a move…
Media Feb 5, 2018 Witness to a massacre: former Myanmar soldier saw his village burn After they finished burning the bodies, the soldiers ordered chicken curry. Nazmul Islam watched as local Buddhists set about preparing food for the men he says raped and massacred scores…
Media Feb 5, 2018 Ecuador’s Correa barred from presidency in national referendum (Miami Herald) – In 2015, with the backing of a compliant congress, [Correa] successfully scrapped presidential term limits. Although the changes wouldn’t take effect until 2021, many worried Correa was…
Media Feb 5, 2018 China’s RSDL a licence to disappear, hold and torture dissenters China, which British Prime Minister Theresa May visited last week and with which the Vatican has reportedly signed a controversial deal, is a land of euphemisms. Underneath the glistening bright…
Media Feb 2, 2018 Cambodian government criminalizes insult of monarchy PHNOM PENH: Cambodia’s government adopted a lese majeste law on Friday that would make it a crime to insult the king and which rights groups said they feared could be…
Media Feb 2, 2018 Kenya arrests lawyer, keeps TV stations shut (Reuters) – Kenya on Friday arrested an opposition lawyer and defied a court order to lift a ban on three private television stations that had covered the symbolic presidential inauguration…
Press Release Feb 2, 2018 Venezuelan Political Police Arrests 85-Year-Old Intellectual NEW YORK (February 2, 2018) – The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) strongly condemns the violent raid and arbitrary arrest of Venezuelan historian Enrique Aristeguieta Gramcko and calls on the Venezuelan dictatorship to release him immediately. Mr. Aristeguieta is an 85-year-old Venezuelan attorney
Media Feb 2, 2018 Tehran hijab protest: Iranian police arrest 29 women (The Guardian) – Although women in Iran have fought against the hijab for nearly four decades, the new wave of protests has grabbed more attention and sparked a debate rarely…
Media Feb 1, 2018 Venezuelans Are So Hungry ‘They Have to Loot to Eat’ (Time) – In the first half of January, there were at least 110 incidents of looting, more than five times than in the same period a year earlier, says the Venezuelan Observatory of Social Conflict…
Media Feb 1, 2018 Asia does not have a single ‘fully democratic’ state In the latest edition of The Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2017 Democracy Index, there are 19 “fully democratic” countries in the world. None of them are located in Asia. At best,…
Media Feb 1, 2018 Nobel peace prize: US lawmakers nominate Hong Kong protesters (The Guardian) – US lawmakers including the Republican senator Marco Rubio have nominated Joshua Wong and Hong Kong’s umbrella protest movement for the 2018 Nobel peace prize in recognition of…
Press Release Jan 31, 2018 Ji Seong-ho Honored During State of the Union Address WASHINGTON (January 31, 2018) — North Korean defector and HRF partner Ji Seong-ho was honored during the State of the Union Address last night in Washington, D.C. Seong-ho was featured…
Media Jan 31, 2018 Thailand charges eight activists as public frustration at junta grows (Reuters) – Thailand on Wednesday charged eight activists of a civil rights group with violating the military government’s ban on public gatherings, after it kicked off a cross-country march on…
Media Jan 30, 2018 European Court Says Russia Violated Rights Of Bolotnaya Protesters (Radio Free Europe) – The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Russia violated the rights of three men who were jailed in connection with a protest on…
