The Supreme Court on Thursday reduced the sentence of convicted lese-majeste activist Somyot Prueksakasemsuk to 7 years. The verdict reversed the criminal and the appeal courts’ sentences of 10 years […]
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Lena Hendry is a Programme Coordinator for Pusat KOMAS, a human rights organisation which works to empower indigenous peoples, urban poor, workers, and civil society organisations through the use of
YANGON – An officer of the Myanmar army recently filed a criminal complaint against two journalists for allegedly sowing disunity among the military. Even though mediation by the Press Council
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After being sentenced to seven years and six months in jail, the Military Court gave a well-known anti-establishment red-shirt country singer extra three years and four months imprisonment for lèse
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A court in Singapore on Tuesday sentenced the founder of a website that published anti-foreign content to eight months in jail after he pleaded guilty to sedition. Yang Kaiheng, 27,
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