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McCain: Allow sale of defensive weapons to Vietnam

June 7, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Lolita C. Baldor Associated Press SINGAPORE (AP) — America needs to provide Vietnam with more defensive weapons, U.S. Sen. John McCain said Saturday as tensions in the Asia Pacific region heightened over China’s expanding land reclamation projects in the South China Sea. But U.S. efforts so far are focused on delivering some of the […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Amnesty International, Asia Pacific, Associated Press, Defense Secretary Ash Carter, Foreign Ministry, Hua Chunying, Obama, Russia, South China Sea, Vietnam War, Vol 34 No 24 | June 6 - June 12

Malaysia top court upholds Anwar Ibrahim’s sodomy conviction

February 14, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Eileen Ng Associated Press PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim began a 5-year prison sentence on Tuesday after a court rejected his final appeal against a sodomy conviction, a decision he called a “murder of judicial independence” and human rights groups condemned as unjust. The case was widely seen at home […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2008, 2015, Amnesty International, Anwar Ibrahim, Appeals Court, Associated Press, Bridget Welsh, Federal Court, High Court, Justice Arifin Zakaria, Muslim-majority Malaysia, National Justice Party, National Taiwan University, PUTRAJAYA, Saiful Bukhari Azlan, Tey Khang Fai, Vol 34 No 8 | February 14 - February 20, Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, White House

Indonesia executes 6 drug convicts, including 5 foreigners

January 25, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Niniek Karmini Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia executed by firing squad five foreigners and an Indonesian woman convicted on drug trafficking charges despite appeals to spare them, with the government defending the action as necessary to combat the rising drug trade.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Amnesty International, Ang Kiem Soe, Associated Press, Attorney General Muhammad Prasetyo, Attorney General Office, Brazilian Marco Archer Cardoso Moreira, Brazilian Moreira, Central Java, Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders, Indonesian Rani Andriani, Malawi Daniel Enemuo, Namaona Denis, Nigeria, Rodrigo Muxfeldt Gularte, Southeast Asia, Tony Spontana, Vietnam, Vol 34 No 5 | January 24 - January 30

Scholar detained on charge of troublemaking

October 19, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

AP Wire Service BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese scholar and rights advocate who founded an influential non-governmental think tank has been detained on the criminal charge of provoking troubles, his lawyer said Sunday.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2014, Amnesty International, Beijing, Chen Guangcheng, China, Chinese, Guo Yushan, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Hong Kong, Li Jin, Transition Institute, United States, Vol 33 No 43 | October 18 - October 24, Wang Zang

Myanmar’s president pardons 69 political prisoners

November 24, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Aye Aye Win Associated Press  YANGON, Myanmar (AP) – Myanmar’s president on Nov. 15 pardoned 69 political prisoners, including two grandsons of a former dictator, as part of a promise to free all such detainees by the end of the year.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2008, 2011, 2013, Amnesty International, Associated Press, France, Isabelle Arradon, Jen Psaki, Kyaw Ne Win, Myanmar, Naw Ohn Hla, Peaceful Assembly Law, Thein Sein, United States, Vol 32 No 48 | November 23 - November 29, Ye Aung, Zwe Ne Win

Myanmar reforms leave political prisoners behind

May 19, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Todd Pitman The Associated Press YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — In a remote prison in northwest Myanmar, Aye Aung wakes up each day as he has for nearly 14 years — alone in a dark cell on a wooden plank, a prisoner of conscience all but forgotten by the world.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2012, Although Myanmar, Amnesty International, Aung San Suu Kyi, Aye Aung, Catherine Ashton, David Mathieson, European Union, Home Ministry, Human Rights Watch, Political Prisoners, President Thein Sein, San Myint, Thant Zaw, Vol 31 No 21 | May 19 - May 25, Win Mra, YANGON

Oct. 2: Local groups hold candlelight vigil on fourth anniversary of Burma’s Saffron Revolution

October 22, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

  The Coalition for Refugees from Burma (CRB), Amnesty International, Burma Partnership, and University Baptist Church partnered to hold a candlelight vigil for the fourth anniversary of Burma’s 2007 Saffron Revolution at the south end of Green Lake.

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2011, Amnesty International, Burma Partnership, Green Lake, Saffron Revolution, University Baptist Church, Vol 30 No 43 | October 22 - October 28

Malaysian government faces criticism after rally chaos

July 16, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Sean Yoong THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian authorities sought Sunday to deflect criticism that the government was suppressing dissent after making mass arrests and unleashing tear gas against at least 20,000 demonstrators who marched for electoral reforms.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, Amnesty International, Anwar Ibrahim, Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein, Human Rights Watch, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, National Front, Prime Minister Najib Razak, Vol 30 No 29 | July 16 - July 22

China anti-Nobel campaign is winning it no friends

December 16, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

BEIJING (AP) — China’s campaign to vilify this year’s recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and sabotage the award ceremony showed signs of backfiring

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2010, Amnesty International, Beijing, CNN, China, Chinese Embassy, Confucius Peace Prize, Internet-savvy Chinese, Li Heping, Liu Xiaobo, NRK, Nobel Peace Prize, Salil Shetty, Serbia, Taiwanese Vice President Lien Chan, Tan Changliu, Vol 29 No 51 | December 18 - December 24

Uzbek women accuse state of mass sterilizations

July 22, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

GULISTAN, Uzbekistan (AP) — Saodat Rakhimbayeva says she wishes that she had died with her newborn baby.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2008, 2010, AP, Afghan Taliban, Alisher Alimov, Amnesty International, Committee Against Torture, Ferghana Valley, GULISTAN, Health Ministry, Kakhramon Fuzailov, Khalida Alimova, Muslim Uzbekistan, President Islam Karimov, Shakhlo Tursunova, Veronika Tretyakova, Vol 29 No 30 | July 24 - July 30, poverty

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