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JAKARTA — Indonesia's national human rights commission is investigating the death of a 13-year-old boy who was allegedly beaten to death by police on the island of Sumatra, officials said on June 25.
UNITED NATIONS — Afghanistan's Taliban government is due to send officials to Qatar next weekend to meet top UN officials and envoys from up to 25 countries for a two-day gathering that rights groups have criticised for not including Afghan women.
Tens of thousands of Muslim minority Rohingya are feared to be caught in fighting in western Myanmar, as a powerful armed ethnic group bears down on junta positions in a coastal town on the country's border with Bangladesh.
JAKARTA — An Indonesian court has sentenced a comedian to seven months in prison for a joke he made about the name 'Muhammad', court documents showed, intensifying concerns over blasphemy laws in one of the world's most populous Muslim nations.
Ceremony held at memorial site in Mullivaikkal village despite reports of heavy surveillance and allegations of intimidation.
Eight years after Australia began investigating alleged war crimes in Afghanistan, a whistleblower is the first to be punished.
BANGKOK — A Thai court sentenced a prominent jailed activist lawyer on Monday (April 29) to a further two years in prison for royal insults relating to a speech he made at a 2021 protest, his lawyer said.
SEOUL — North Korea accused the US on Saturday (April 27) of politicising human rights in the East Asian country, denouncing what it called political provocation and conspiracy.