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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia’s House of Representatives has ramped up pressure on the United States and Britain to end the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange by passing a motion calling for the Australian citizen to be allowed to return to his home country.
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who last year returned from more than a decade of self-imposed exile to serve a prison sentence for misdeeds committed while in office, has been granted parole and could be released this weekend, the country’s justice minister announced Tuesday.
Human rights advocate Moazzam Begg returns to Afghanistan to battle demons and champion justice in the shadow of war.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Lawyers for Cambodia’s ruling Cambodian People’s Party filed a lawsuit Monday at the order of the party’s leader, former Prime Minister Hun Sen, accusing a leading rights activist of defamation and seeking damages of half a million dollars.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s ex-Prime Minister Najib Razak is disapppinted he wasn’t given a full royal pardon of his 12-year prison sentence for graft, and may file a new appeal to the new monarch, his lawyer said Wednesday.
Lidy Nacpil leads the Asia Peoples' Movement on Debt and Development, a regional alliance for people-centered development and economic and climate justice. Joojin Kim is chief executive and co-founder of Solutions for Our Climate, a campaign and research group. Yuki Tanabe is program director at the Japan Center for a Sustainable Environment and Society, a research and advocacy group focused on development and social justice.
The Pakistani state claims that we are against it, but the truth is that it is the state that is against us.
The Supreme Court justices seemed skeptical of arguments to kick Donald Trump off state ballots and disqualify him from holding office because of his attempts to overturn the 2020 election.