AG @ag_fidh

FIDH (@fidh_en) Asia Desk Director. Posting about human rights, democracy (or lack thereof), and political developments in Asia - [email protected] fidh.org/en/asia/ Asia Joined July 2014

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Human Rights Watch @hrw

16 hours ago

The internet is back on in Afghanistan after the latest Taliban shutdown. These shutdowns threaten severe harm to the rights and livelihoods of the population, and they can further silence and isolate women and girls.

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UN Special Procedures @UN_SPExperts

a day ago

#China: UN experts express serious concern over the increasing criminalisation of Uyghur & other minority cultural expression, citing the case of artist Yaxia’er Xiaohelaiti and the enforced disappearance of scholar Rahile Dawut. ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

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AG @ag_fidh

a day ago

#Vietnam: Immediately and unconditionally release land rights defender Trinh Ba Phuong, sentenced to an additional 11 years in prison on politically motivated charges of “propaganda against the state”, while serving another 10-year prison term fidh.org/en/issues/huma…

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UN Human Rights @UNHumanRights

2 days ago

#Afghanistan: Nationwide internet shutdown by Taliban has extremely serious human rights ramifications across the country. It curtails free flow of information crucial to everyday activities, incl. access to essential services from health & education to banking. Women & girls…

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NetBlocks @netblocks

2 days ago

⚠️ Update: It has now been 24 hours since #Afghanistan imposed a national internet blackout, cutting off residents from the rest of the world; the ongoing measure marks the Taliban's return to conservative values it espoused a quarter of a century ago limiting basic freedoms

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UN Special Procedures @UN_SPExperts

3 days ago

#Iran: UN experts appalled by unprecedented scale of recent executions, with over 1000 documented in 9 months & the actual number likely to be much higher. The experts urge int'l community to pressure Iran to halt further death sentences & executions. ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

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The Observatory @OBS_defenders

2 days ago

🇹🇭#Thailand: On 30/09, the Court of Appeals upheld the 2-y prison sentence against #HumanRights defender & MP Chonthicha Jangrew under lèse majesté. She was granted bail pending appeal before the Supreme Court 📣We call for her convictions to be quashed! 👉fidh.org/en/issues/huma…

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AG @ag_fidh

2 days ago

#Laos: UN body issues findings & recommendations after its review of the country’s situation of economic, social, & cultural rights, expresses concern over intimidation, harassment, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance of human rights defenders tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/tr…

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BBC News (World) @BBCWorld

3 days ago

China sentences 11 members of mafia family to death bbc.in/4mBk60Z

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AG @ag_fidh

2 days ago

#Thailand: Trial of Thai gunman who confessed to the murder of former Cambodian opposition lawmaker Lim Kimya begins in Bangkok channelnewsasia.com/asia/french-ca… #Cambodia

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AG @ag_fidh

3 days ago

#Vietnam: Land rights activist Trịnh Bá Phương, who is already serving a 10-year prison term, is sentenced to 11 more years in prison thevietnamese.org/2025/09/activi…

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AG @ag_fidh

6 days ago

#Laos: “[T]he country remains an extremely dangerous place for independent civil society.” - Full text of @fidh_en oral statement for the adoption of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) fidh.org/en/region/asia… #HRC60

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AG @ag_fidh

6 days ago

#Laos: #HappeningNow - Adoption of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) - Watch live from Geneva webtv.un.org/en/asset/k11/k… #HRC60

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Amnesty International Malaysia @AmnestyMy

a week ago

Datchinamurthy Kataiah was executed this evening. We are heartbroken at this incredible cruelty. May he rest in peace. May the fight against the death penalty continue in his memory. All life is precious. #AbolishTheDeathPenalty

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AG @ag_fidh

a week ago

#NorthKorea: “The victims cannot wait another decade for justice. Their rights and dignity must be upheld, their suffering must be neither forgotten nor ignored.” - @twtNKDB & @fidh_en oral statement at #HRC60 fidh.org/en/region/asia… #DPRK

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The Independent @Independent

a week ago

Singapore to hang man as activists press for a halt to the death penalty independent.co.uk/asia/southeast…

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Volker Türk @volker_turk

a week ago

#DPRK: the situation is one of the most chronic & longstanding human rights crises in the world. A change of course is urgently needed to avoid another decade of suffering. My report to @UN_HRC calls for reform & accountability, as well as support for victims.

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AG @ag_fidh

a week ago

#Thailand: The trial of Bilal Mohammed and Yusufu Mieraili, the two #Uyghurs accused of the bombing of the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok in August 2015, resumes today in Bangkok - The two have been on trial since February 2016 and detained for more than 10 years - @fidh_en observing