Justice

Justice • STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 11, 2018 • 11 min read

Cambodian political refugees Betrayed

By Jack Davies • Jun 11, 2018
Despite documented cases of torture and abuse, immigration court files reveal that the US is sending Cambodian asylum seekers back to face political persecution

Justice • STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 04, 2018 • 15 min read

Cambodia's media ‘We’re going to be blind’

By Paul Millar, Tom O'Connell, Janelle Retka • Jun 04, 2018
Critics decry the end of an era of press freedom in Cambodia as the nation's last independent newspaper is sold to the owner of a Malaysian "covert PR" firm

Justice • STORY OF THE DAY • Mar 09, 2018 • 9 min read

Land rights Kratie’s ‘insurrection’

By Paul Millar and Leng Len • Mar 09, 2018
A violent clash between security forces and local villagers in Kratie echoes the bloody 2012 intervention that left a teenage girl dead and a village traumatised

Justice • STORY OF THE DAY • Mar 07, 2018 • 9 min read

Indonesia The revenge porn phenomenon

By Kate Walton • Mar 07, 2018
Revenge porn is running rampant in Indonesia, with numerous women reporting how the sharing of erotic videos and photos has ruined their lives. A perverse pornography law means that victims have nowhere to turn

Justice • Feb 21, 2018 • 7 min read
Rohingya refugees

Letters from Arakan

A collection of touching personal accounts by Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar to neighbouring Bangladesh
By Adib Chowdhury • Feb 21, 2018

Justice • Feb 12, 2018 • 14 min read
Child sex abuse

The sound of silence

An unregulated pagoda environment, the status of monks and the downplaying of male rape means that sexual abuse of children in the monkhood is likely more widespread than anyone dares to admit
By Paul Millar • Feb 12, 2018

Justice • Jul 10, 2017 • 7 min read
Kem Ley

Murder, mourning and martyrdom

A year after the assassination of popular political analyst Kem Ley, Southeast Asia Globe reviews the key events in one of Cambodia's great modern tragedies
By Colin Meyn • Jul 10, 2017

Justice • Jun 16, 2017 • 8 min read
Whatever happened to

The gruesome Vallier murder case?

Almost six years ago, Frenchman Laurent Vallier was found drowned in a pond along with his four children in rural Cambodia. Investigations have been at times farcical and fruitless – and the unsolved murder still haunts the area
By Paul Millar • Jun 16, 2017

Justice • Jun 15, 2017 • 4 min read
Opinion

Cambodians must find their own justice as Khmer Rouge Tribunal breaks down

Almost 40 years after Pol Pot’s bloody regime was toppled, judges at the Khmer Rouge tribunal have indicated that the three remaining cases will not proceed. But Cambodia's quest to show ‘the supremacy of civilisation over inhumanity’ should not be abandoned so lightly, argues Youk Chhang
By Youk Chhang • Jun 15, 2017

Justice • Jun 06, 2017 • 9 min read
Football fraud

Pitch invaders

With Timor-Leste recently found guilty of illegally importing talented South American players to improve their national football team, Southeast Asia Globe investigates the fake passport epidemic sweeping the region
By Jack Kerr and Dene Mullen • Jun 06, 2017

Justice • May 24, 2017 • 9 min read
Singapore

The politics of hate

By criminalising insult, Singapore’s government says it is avoiding religious discord and hurt feelings. But the protection is selective and, some say, dangerous
By Kirsten Han • May 24, 2017