Cambodia – Exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy was sentenced to ten years in jail by a Cambodian court today for allegedly plotting to depose dictator Hun Sen. Rainsy has been residing in France since 2015 in order to escape being imprisoned for a series of convictions he claims are politically motivated, including a 25-year term handed down in March of …

An organization of dissent bunches has given letters to unfamiliar government offices requesting that ambassadors visit seven Ratsadon bunch co-pioneers and screen their condition in jail. In view of this, Individuals from the United Front of Thammasat and Demonstration, the Free Youth bunch, the Ratsadon bunch, the We Volunteer gathering, and the Democracy Restoration bunch gave the letters in at …

As the Philippine government starts the rollout of immunization program against the COVID-19, a backing bunch for political detainees asked wellbeing specialists not to fail to remember detainees mulling in the nation’s packed jails. Kapatid, a care group for political detainees, kept in touch with Health Secretary Francisco Duque requesting that the public authority incorporate all people denied of freedom …

Indonesia’s top militant prisoner, Abu Bakar Bashir, the spiritual leader of the Jemaah Islamiah terror organization in South-East Asia, is expected to be released from jail on the 8th of January. Since being detained in 2009, the 82-year-old conservative cleric has been in prison. Mr Imam Suyudi, head of the West Java Law and Human Rights Regional Office, said Bashir …

The Supreme Court commuted a two-month jail sentence imposed on Premsak Piayura, a former mayor of Ban Phai Municipality and veteran politician, to two months in detention in 2016 for committing an indecent act against a news reporter. The case started when Daily News published a story about a rumor in July 2016 that Premsak, then 51, had been hired …

PETALING JAYA – Chief Minister Datuk Seri Panglima Shafie Apdal has ordered the Sabah government that foreign nationals in prison be segregated from local detainees to curb the spread of the virus. Shafie said in an emergency meeting and instructed the Sabah police commissioner to segregate foreign detainees who might be a carrier of the coronavirus. He further added that …

On Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, people usually gather with family in their house or relative’s house. Conditions are different, of course, with people who are serving sentences in detention. The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) opens an online visiting service for families of prisoners of corruption cases during the Eid al-Adha 1441 Hijri tomorrow, Friday, July 31. Acting KPK Enforcement …

The Philippines has the world’s highest prison occupancy rate, aggravated by the war on drugs waged by the Duterte administration, under which hundreds of thousands of people have been imprisoned since July 2016. Since March 2020, thousands of people have been charged and briefly held for breaking curfews and quarantine laws, with subsequent chaotic police lockups and jails. As with …

Cebu Mayor Edgardo Labella has said on his Facebook page that there were 63 more inmates that has contracted the dreaded Covid19 virus, bringing the number of Cebu Jail inmates tested positive for the Coronavirus above 200, now at a staggering number of 207. The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) Region 7 has already ordered the isolation of …

KUALA LUMPUR – To avoid overcrowding of prisons, The Malaysia Prison Department’s correctional academies has been chosen to the new detention centres for those who violated the movement control order (MCO), Senior Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said today. As the Movement Control Order (MCO) enters phase 3, the government will no longer issue compound or fines of RM1,000 …