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HRW, “Creating Panic” Bangladesh Election Crackdown on Political Opponents and Critics
“They are arresting people from their house, from processions, without any authorization. Nowadays we are not able to stay in our house at night. A friend in the police told my wife I shouldn’t stay at home, although I was already acting on this basis. I usually leave home at 10 p.m. I come back early in the morning. This is how we are running our life.”
AFAD Seeks the Truth about Sombath Somphone
4th December 2018
Manila: The Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) expresses concern over the enforced disappearance of Sombath Somphone and the continued denial of the Lao government in bringing forth the truth about him.
Sombath Somphone was a community development worker from Laos who was disappeared on 15th of December 2012 in Vientiane. Since then, the family of Sombath has been running a campaign called ‘Return Sombath Campaign’ to know the truth about what happened to him and seek justice from the Lao government.
AFAD Commemorates Human Rights Day
Manila: The Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) commemorates the Human Rights Day, observed each year on the 10th of December. This day this year marks 70 years since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and thus makes the day of greater significance.
This day is an opportunity to assess the situation of human rights across the world and to ascertain how hard the States must work to ensure basic human rights for every individual. Unfortunately, in Asia, the situation of human rights has been deteriorating with repressive regimes coming to power, institution of repressive state policies, institutionalized impunity for perpetrators of human rights violations and persecution of human rights defenders.
