Tag: Human rights
Hong Kong extends coronavirus group restrictions, Tiananmen vigil at risk
Religious gatherings will resume with certain safety rules. Bars, cinemas and gyms re-opened earlier this month.
Rights groups call for release of political prisoners amid pandemic
Human rights groups called on the Philippine government to release political prisoners amid reports that several inmates have been infected by the new coronavirus disease.
Catholic priest in Mindanao decries red-tagging
A Catholic priest in the southern Philippines decried what he described as red-tagging directed at him by still unknown individuals in the Diocese of Tandag.
Chinese woman sentenced to four years jail for social media posts
A woman in China’s central province of Hubei has been sentenced to four years in prison for “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble” using her social media accounts.
Philippine government orders country’s largest broadcast network to go off air
ABS-CBN went off air early evening of May 5 after the government ordered the network to stop operations a day after its franchise expired.
Rohingya survivors tell of misery, death at sea; hundreds still adrift
As food and water ran out, they began to die of starvation, thirst, and beatings
UN human rights expert reports on possible crimes against humanity in...
A United Nations human rights expert has called for an investigation into possible “war crimes and crimes against humanity” in Myanmar’s Rakhine and Chin...
Under the shadow of contagion, Philippine activists killed
An activist leading relief efforts for people affected by the “enhanced community quarantine” in the central Philippine city of Iloilo was shot dead in...
Philippines rights advocates battle ‘virus’ as infectious as COVID-19
President Duterte and his lieutenants brush off complaints of abuse, insisting the tough measures are aimed at protecting citizens from the pandemic
Pandemic is no excuse to ignore human rights
Authoritarian govts should not weaponize the pandemic to subvert human rights
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