growing wave of international condemnation has poured in over the renewed effort to name late president Soeharto as a national hero, with a coalition of global civic groups warning the plan could whitewash decades of human rights abuses and corruption by the former leader. Soeharto, who was also the former father-in-law of President Prabowo Subianto,… … Read more
recent statement from a high-ranking Indonesian Navy officer suggesting that a fellow officer’s fatal shooting of a civilian in Tangerang, Banten, was an act of self-defense has sparked criticism from human rights groups, which have called for a full and transparent probe into the incident. A… Source link
n auspicious gesture from Thailand in 2007 was its agreement to be bound by the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, otherwise known as the CAT. Recently, Thailand’s record on this front was vetted for the second time by the Committee Against Torture, which monitors implementation of … Read more