Bangkok-20 Jul-OHCHR-Bangkok United Nations human rights experts have concluded a five-day visit to Bangladesh, where they met newly arrived Rohingya refugees from Rakhine State, Myanmar, in the final weeks before the publication of their comprehensive written report. This visit of the Human Rights Council-mandated Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar to Bangladesh provided
กรุงเทพฯ-19 เม.ย.-OHCHR-Bangkok United Nations human rights experts* have called for Iran to annul the death sentence against an Iranian Kurdish prisoner, Ramin Hossein Panahi, amid serious concerns that he has not received a fair trial and has been mistreated and tortured in detention. Executing Mr. Panahi, following his torture, and unfair trial and on the basis of charges that do
Bangkok-8 May-OHCHR-Bangkok The United Nations Human Rights Office for South-East Asia (OHCHR) urges the Thai Government to halt the practice of arbitrary detention of political activists, and to immediately release six people recently charged with criticising authorities. On 29 April 2017, two political activists - Mr. Danai Tibsuya, a former military officer from
Bangkok-1 Jun-OHCHR-Bangkok United Nations human rights experts* today called onthe Government of Cambodia to stop targeting civil society, human rights defenders, parliamentarians and UN personnel, and to take effective measures to protect civil society and respect fundamental freedoms in thecountry. The escalation of criminal charges, questioning, court proceedings an
Bangkok-2 Dec-OHCHR-Bangkok The United Nations Human Rights Office for South-East Asia (OHCHR) calls for the immediate closure of a Bangkok military detention facility where two inmates died over the past month, and urges the Thai Government to include independent experts to join an investigation into the cases. OHCHR alsocalls on the Government to stop using military faciliti
Bangkok-3 Jul-OHCHR-Bangkok The United Nations Human Rights Office for SouthEast Asia (OHCHR) urges the Government to promptly drop criminal chargesagainst students who have been arrested in Bangkok for peacefully demonstrating in public and release them from custody. It further urges theGovernment to review its use of laws that limit freedom of expression andfreedom of assembly in line with its obligations under
Bangkok-29 Jun-OHCHR-Bangkok The United Nations Human Rights Office forSouth-East Asia (OHCHR) is concerned about the conviction of 16 year-oldAmos Yee for uploading remarks and images critical of the late Lee KuanYew, the founding Prime-Minister of Singapore. He is due to be sentenced on23 June 2015. Amos was remanded on 2 June for three
Bangkok-19 Jul-UNISBKK The Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions of the United Nations Human Rights Council issued the following statement today: Philip Alston, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, today called on the Government of Thailand to repeal those provisions of t