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July 5, 2010
Chinese court sentences US geologist to 8 years

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.

June 22, 2010
No Reconciliation for Thailand's Red Shirts

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.

May 27, 2010
Amnesty report: Human rights abuses rising

Europe and the United States are fueling human rights abuses because they are shielding allies from scrutiny or are ignoring international courts, Amnesty International said in its annual assessment of human rights.

May 27, 2010
Pursuing justice: For all rights, for all people

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.

May 7, 2010
2010 World Report: Thailand Chapter

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.

April 23, 2010
Explainer: What are the protests in Thailand about?

Thousands of anti-government protesters have once again brought Thailand’s capital to a standstill, as they seek to unseat a leadership — led by Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva — they say is illegitimate and undemocratic.

April 16, 2010
Letter to President Obama in regards to Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung Visit

As a President who has demonstrated strong determination to restore honor to democracy, we would like to express our serious concerns regarding ongoing human rights violations in Vietnam.

April 8, 2010
Chinese Rights Lawyer Picks Family Over Dissent

A crusading Chinese human-rights lawyer whose disappearance more than a year ago caused an international outcry said Wednesday that he was abandoning his once prominent role as a government critic in hopes of being allowed to reunite with his family.

April 4, 2010
State Department Urged to Counter Chinas Internet Policies, Part 1

Representatives from Google and The Go Daddy Group spoke of the increasing difficulties in doing business in China without becoming complicit in its censorship on the Internet and monitoring of its citizens’ free expressions on the Internet.

March 16, 2010
Vietnam releases dissident priest Nguyen Van Ly

Nguyen Van Ly, 63, suffered two strokes in 2009 that left him partly paralysed, and Western governments had demanded repeatedly that he be freed.

March 10, 2010
VIETNAM: Human rights lawyer and blogger arrested just three days after completing jail term

Reporters Without Borders condemns the way the authorities are treating human rights lawyer and blogger Le Thi Cong Nhan, who was detained for three hours yesterday, just three days after she was released on completing a three-year jail sentence.

March 8, 2010
Cyber-bullying cases put heat on Google, Facebook

Although Google, News Corp's Facebook and their rivals have enjoyed a relatively "safe harbor" from prosecution over user-generated content in the United States and Europe, they face a public that increasingly more inclined to blame them for cyber-bullying and other online transgressions.

March 8, 2010
Thailand to Impose Security Law For Rally

BANGKOK (Reuters) - The Thai government plans to invoke a tough security law, giving the armed forces broad powers to control a rally in Bangkok by supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, a minister said on Monday.

March 5, 2010
2009 Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor

Laos: International Religious Freedom Report 2009

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

March 5, 2010
Words of a member of the Lao Students Movement for Democracy Oct. 1999

On the morning of 26 October 1999, in an unprecedented public demonstration, a group of about 30 young people assembled in Vientiane, the capital city of the Laos