Justice

Justice • STORY OF THE DAY • Jul 07, 2019 • 12 min read

Thailand Nowhere to hide

By Caleb Quinley • Jul 07, 2019
Across Southeast Asia, Thai dissidents are under siege. At home, they are attacked by masked thugs. Abroad, they live in fear as their comrades are hunted down, killed or disappeared

Justice • STORY OF THE DAY • Jul 01, 2019 • 13 min read

Acid attacks Scarred for life

By Stefan V. Jensen • Jul 01, 2019
From our print archive: The corrosive effects of an all-too-familiar crime need immediate attention and then a lifetime of recuperation

Justice • STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 07, 2019 • 8 min read

Thailand drug war Justice denied

By Torgeir Norling • Jun 07, 2019
From our print archive: the human cost of Thaksin Shinawatra's brutal war on drugs

Justice • STORY OF THE DAY • Apr 04, 2019 • 7 min read

Religion How sharia came to Brunei

By Thomas Brent • Apr 04, 2019
Brunei has become the first country in Southeast Asia to fully implement sharia criminal law on a national level, imposing brutal punishments for adultery and same-sex relations

Justice • Mar 16, 2019 • 7 min read
Politics

Why the Philippines’ ICC exit could ‘undermine years of quiet diplomacy’

Duterte’s decision to withdraw the Philippines from the International Criminal Court has prompted outcry from certain members of the opposition and human rights groups. But what exactly is he walking away from? Southeast Asia Globe breaks down the purpose of the ICC, and what a withdrawal really means for the Philippines
By Thomas Brent • Mar 16, 2019

Justice • Jan 25, 2019 • 10 min read
Singapore

The desperation of migrant workers

Southeast Asia Globe speaks with foreign workers and the aid organisations that help them get back on their feet after on-the-job injuries force them to battle with employers. A new law that takes effect in April could change the game
By Silvia Boccardi • Jan 25, 2019

Justice • Dec 15, 2018 • 6 min read
Press Freedom

He wanted to expose Cambodia’s virginity trade. Now, he’s in prison

A Cambodian translator helped foreign journalists film a documentary about alleged sex trafficking in the Kingdom. Authorities now claim the film’s subjects said they were paid to be in the film. The translator’s wife, who visited him in prison, tells Southeast Asia Globe that her husband is afraid, sick and innocent
By Matt Surrusco • Dec 15, 2018

Justice • Dec 14, 2018 • 10 min read
Khmer Rouge tribunal

‘Astonishing failure’ or ‘justice for millions’?

After nearly 20 years and $320m in cost, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) landed its first genocide conviction of high-level officers in the Pol Pot regime. A looming judicial stalemate on the fate of two more cases could lead to the ECCC’s termination
By Charles Dunst • Dec 14, 2018

Justice • Aug 30, 2018 • 7 min read
Capital Punishment

Whatever happened to Thailand’s abolition of the death penalty?

Almost a decade since the last execution in Thailand, a 26-year-old man was killed by lethal injection. And though no one is saying why the nation has suddenly reversed its position on capital punishment, rumours that it is connected to the royal succession are difficult to ignore
By Paul Millar • Aug 30, 2018

Justice • Aug 15, 2018 • 6 min read
Timeline

Cambodia’s imprisoned human rights activist

It is exactly two years since Cambodia’s prominent human rights defender Tep Vanny was jailed after protesting against the imprisonment of a group of rights workers known as the Adhoc 5. Southeast Asia Globe looks at her story so far
By Lesly Lotha • Aug 15, 2018

Justice • Aug 13, 2018 • 12 min read
Myanmar

Hate speech on Facebook still persists

In a nation where ethnic and religious hatreds have long simmered and occasionally boiled over, social media represents a brave new digital frontier where news battles with hearsay, gossip and threats that can have deadly consequences
By Libby Hogan • Aug 13, 2018