Media Feb 26, 2018 Tanzania opposition MP jailed for five months for insulting president (Reuters) – A court in Tanzania sentenced two opposition leaders to five months in prison on Monday for insulting President John Magufuli, a decision likely to fuel criticism that authorities…
Media Feb 23, 2018 Iran Arrests Two More Women For Protesting Compulsory Hijab (RFE) – Iranian security officers have arrested two women who protested against the compulsory hijab in Tehran by removing their head scarves in public and waving them while standing on…
Media Feb 16, 2018 Hungary’s Orban steps up crackdown on critics before vote (ABC News) – Nearly 30 years after the end of communism, the tightening stranglehold Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his oligarch allies have on key sectors of Hungary’s media has…
Media Feb 16, 2018 Turkey sentences journalists to life in jail over coup attempt (The Guardian) – A Turkish court has sentenced six defendants, including three prominent journalists, to life in prison over allegations of involvement in a 2016 coup attempt, drawing fierce condemnation…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Media Jan 26, 2018 Duterte’s Media War in the Philippines Highlights ASEAN’s Rights Probl The effort in the Philippines to ban online media outlet Rappler has sounded further alarm bells across a region that is already dogged by increasing censorship and a growing intolerance of criticism or dissent.
Media Jan 26, 2018 Maduro’s Court Excludes Opposition From Presidential Vote (News24) – Venezuela’s top court on Thursday delayed the process to re-enrol political parties by six months – a move that will exclude the main opposition coalition from the upcoming…
Media Jan 23, 2018 Sweden Wants Answers About Its Seized Citizen. China Isn’t Giving Any. BEIJING — China on Tuesday publicly rebuffed demands by Sweden for information on the fate of a Swedish citizen who was snatched off a train in China by plainclothes officers…
Media Jan 23, 2018 Chechnya’s Dictator, Recently Hit With US Sanctions, Blames NGOs (Gizmodo) – The leader of the Russian republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, was recently hit with US sanctions over human rights abuses such as his government’s torture and “purge” of…
