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July 12, 2010

In a famous maxim, China's late leader Deng Xiaoping urged his countrymen to "hide your brightness, bide your time". That was more than 20 years ago. It now seems China's leaders have finished biding their time.

July 5, 2010

An American geologist held and tortured by China's state security agents was sentenced to eight years in prison Monday for gathering data on the Chinese oil industry in a case that highlights the government's use of vague secrets laws to restrict business information.

July 5, 2010

Thai security officials on Monday proposed extending a state of emergency imposed across about a third of the country, including Bangkok, in response to opposition protests that turned deadly.

July 3, 2010

Washington, DC. June 30, 2010.  Initatives for China, The Boston-based movement for a peaceful transition to democracy in China, announces its profound outrage and sorrow at the arrest of renowned democracy advocate, Liu Xianbin

July 3, 2010

Washington, DC. July 1, 2010.  Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy, told a hushed audience yesterday at NED headquarters in Washington, D.C. "not to despair" in the face of the Chinese Communist government's  repression of Uyghur people and culture.  "despair only leads to violence, while hope inspires progress."

June 22, 2010

Despite public promises of compromise by Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, Thailand's military-backed government is continuing to tighten the screws on protesters, most recently freezing bank accounts belonging to 83 wealthy suspected supporters of the two-month insurrection which ended in May.

June 17, 2010

Washington, D.C. – Today, Freedom Now released Opinion No. 12/2010 from the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. The judgment from this international tribunal unequivocally reestablishes that the ongoing detention of Burmese democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is illegal and in violation of international law.

June 12, 2010

The deepening notes of disenchantment with Barack Obama now issuing from commentators across the political spectrum were predictable. So, too, were the charges from some of the president's earliest enthusiasts about his failure to reflect a powerful sense of urgency about the oil spill.

June 11, 2010

The Pentagon's military-exchange program with China for 2010 was canceled earlier this year because of Beijing's anger at arms sales to Taiwan, and military ties remain in deep freeze after the unusually combative exchange in Singapore last week between a Chinese general and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates.

June 7, 2010

The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns recent violence against journalists in Thailand, including the shooting deaths of two foreign reporters killed while covering news events. We call on your government to launch independent probes into recent attacks and bring the perpetrators to justice.

June 4, 2010

The “worst of the worst,” as Washington-based human rights watchdog Freedom House calls them, is comprised of nine countries and one territory: Burma, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tibet.

June 3, 2010

Kind said he considers the issue a high priority, especially the security, treatment and conditions the Hmong returnees are facing. He said he has discussed the situation with other members of Congress and the Lao embassy in Washington, D.C.

June 3, 2010

The “Free Tibet” bumper stickers may have faded since the 1990s, but for Samdhong Rinpoche, Buddhist scholar and Tibet’s prime minister-in-exile, the issue remains as clear as ever.

June 3, 2010

US Senator Jim Webb on Thursday cancelled a planned trip to Myanmar because of new allegations that the regime is working with North Korea to develop a nuclear programme.

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March 14, 2010
By Laos Human Rights

Amnesty International calls on the Lao authorities to release, immediately and unconditionally nine peaceful protesters who have gone missing since their arrest on 2 November 2009. Amnesty International considers them prisoners of conscience, arrested solely for peacefully exercising their right to freedom of expression.

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Kasit Piromya, foreign minister of Thailand, discussed "Political and Economic Developments in Thailand" on Monday, April 12, 2010

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Amnesty Intl. accused the United States, Russia and China on Thursday of ignoring human rights violations by allies and failing to open their own records to scrutiny in an annual survey meant to pressure governments to act more compassionately.

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Pyongyang has threatened immediate strikes against South Korea's navy if its ships enter the North's waters. Tensions between the neighbours have risen after an international investigation concluded that a northern torpedo sank a Southern warship in March.

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Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra said in a television phone interview that Interpol would not execute a Thai warrant for his arrest on terror charges because it was politically motivated.

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The central government continued to deny citizens the right to change their government. Prison conditions were harsh and at times life threatening. Corruption in the police and judiciary persisted.

Democracy is a system of political governance whose decision-making power is subject to the controlling influence of citizens who are considered political equals.

Human rights are international moral and legal norms that aspire to protect all people everywhere from severe political, legal, and social abuses.

Nonviolence is an ideology that rejects the use of violent action in a conflict over power to attain social and political objectives.

Between January and May 2009, some 300,000 Sri Lankans were trapped on a narrow strip of land between the retreating Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the advancing Sri Lankan military.

The 16th Annual Commemoration of Vietnam Human Rights Day will be held on May 11, 2010 at the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington DC.

Political instability and polarization continued in 2009 and occasionally resulted in violence when anti-government groups, affiliated with Thaksin Shinawatra, clashed with Thai security forces.

The Lao People's Democratic Republic is an authoritarian one-party state ruled by the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP). The estimated population was 6.7 million.

Laos: International Religious Freedom Report 2009

The Constitution provides for freedom of religion; however, other laws and policies restricted this right in practice.


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