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Pakistan police clash with doctors protesting lack of virus protection gear

Medics believe failure to supply them with safety gear is putting them at risk

Philippines clamps down on critics as Duterte eyes lockdown extension

Rights groups have noted reprisals against journalists, local officials, and netizens who expressed criticism of govt response on the crisis

Thousands of Bangladeshi garment workers ordered home as factories stay closed

Bangladesh relies on the garment industry for more than 80 percent of its exports

Amid lockdown, Philippines’ Duterte falls back on kill threats

Supplies are low, Duterte grudgingly admitted, because the govt did not expect the contagion to spread so fast

Myanmar charges journalist under terrorism law, blocks news websites

The nation’s army has filed several cases in recent years against reporters and news organizations covering the conflict in Rakhine

Rights group warns of coronavirus ‘tinderbox’ in Myanmar displacement camps

Years of 'conflict, abuse, and neglect' leave most vulnerable in peril

Vitriol and violence: A coronavirus death exposes paranoia in India

Disinformation and scorn can fan paranoia and even violence in a country already reeling from the worst communal riots in years between Muslims and Hindus

Pandemic pushes Philippine church leaders to call for release of prisoners

Authorities have admitted that overcrowded prison facilities are problematic as the new coronavirus rages on

Mothers and their babies locked up in Cambodian prisons

In Cambodia, children are forced to serve time with poor mothers convicted of petty crimes

Rights groups warn Thailand against using coronavirus to clamp down on...

Thai govt has granted itself virtually unlimited powers under the guise of the COVID-19 crisis

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