Justice

Justice • STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 30, 2018 • 7 min read

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

By Paul Millar • Aug 30, 2018
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

Justice • STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 15, 2018 • 6 min read

Timeline Cambodia’s imprisoned human rights activist

By Lesly Lotha • Aug 15, 2018
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

Justice • STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 13, 2018 • 12 min read

Myanmar Hate speech on Facebook still persists

By Libby Hogan • Aug 13, 2018
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

Justice • Jun 11, 2018 • 11 min read
Cambodian political refugees

Betrayed

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

Justice • Jun 04, 2018 • 15 min read
Cambodia's media

‘We’re going to be blind’

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
By Paul Millar, Tom O'Connell, Janelle Retka • Jun 04, 2018

Justice • Mar 09, 2018 • 9 min read
Land rights

Kratie’s ‘insurrection’

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
By Paul Millar and Leng Len • Mar 09, 2018

Justice • Mar 07, 2018 • 9 min read
Indonesia

The revenge porn phenomenon

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
By Kate Walton • Mar 07, 2018

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