Justice

By Chia Chi Hsu • Sep 08, 2023
A shroud of secrecy hangs over a controversial sentence that has lingered for more than 15 years. Human rights advocates say the trial of Nguyen Van Chuong was unfair and that he may have been tortured to extract a confession

By Amanda Oon • Jul 14, 2023
Established in the last years of colonial Singapore, Pulau Senang was supposed to be a different, more progressive kind of prison. Six decades after the island collapsed into nightmarish conditions, a recent documentary has pulled its story back into the city-state’s public memory

By Leila Goldstein • Jul 03, 2023
Activists Haris Azhar and Fatia Maulidiyanti are now in court two years after comments on YouTube about a government official’s involvement in mining activity in conflicted West Papua

By Beatrice Siviero • Jun 21, 2023
The news of attacks on Lao political activists, Anousa “Jack” Luangsuphom and Bounsuan Kitiyano, have cast an ominous light on the persecution of those daring to criticise authority, whether they remain on home soil or attempt to seek safety in neighbouring Thailand