Brad Adams
Brad Adams
Brad Adams is the executive director of the Asian division of Human Rights Watch and has been in the position since 2002. Adams worked in Cambodia for five years prior to his work at Human Rights Watch, he was the senior lawyer for the Cambodia field office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. He also worked as the legal advisor to the Cambodian parliament's human rights committee. Adams is a member of the State Bar of California...
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Freedom of expression is extremely limited. Freedom of assembly is extremely limited. What's missing from the government's position is an end-date for all of this. It was always implicitly the argument that Singapore could grow into a developed society where people could be trusted.
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This is a pretty typical pattern for March.
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This is sure to make the AIDS crisis worse.
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China is trying to portray itself as an emerging and responsible global power,
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Hun Sen appears to be following the Burmese model by imprisoning peaceful critics of his increasingly authoritarian government.
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China is trying to portray itself as an emerging and responsible global power. But continuing to offer unconditional support to one of the world's most odious regimes makes it impossible to take such claims seriously. Now is the time for China to set a new course for itself in its foreign policy.
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It's time for the Chinese government to give a full account of what has happened to these five men, including any charges against them. Independent doctors and lawyers should be allowed to meet with them to ascertain their condition.
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These are welcome moves in the right direction, but not sufficient and do not evidence a change of heart.
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They (the critics) shouldn't be standing on a trap door for the next three years that can be opened on the whim of Hun Sen.
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This report should serve as a wake-up call to the government and donors. This young country can avoid emulating its former colonial master, but only if concerted action is taken now.
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The government has cracked down so much that today most of the major activists are already in jail. That means good people who once stayed inside and system and pushed the rules and who could have been tapped to modernize China, have been forced to step outside the system.
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We were shocked to find so many credible accounts of torture and severe ill-treatment by police officers.
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Yet they still remain afraid of their own citizens and the healthy diversity of news and views which defines a modern society .
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There is compelling evidence suggesting that U.S. personnel have committed acts against detainees amounting to torture or cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment.