<p>Amnesty International has responded to its members' query regarding the cancellation of Robert Amsterdam's talk in Malaysia a few days ago.&nbsp; Thai Political Prisoners has interesting posts on this issue (<a href="http://thaipoliticalprisoners.wordpress.com/2011/04/23/ai-restricts-free-speech/">here</a> and<a href="http://thaipoliticalprisoners.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/ais-jaundiced-claims-of-political-neutrality/"> here</a>).</p>

<p>Red Shirt lawyer held a one-person dialogue in Kuala Lumpur after cancellation of an event to be hosted by Amnesty International Malaysia after advice from the Amnesty International Secretariat.</p>

<p>Online calls for China to stage its own &lsquo;Jasmine Revolution&rsquo; following protests in the Middle East and North Africa has prompted the heaviest wave of arrests of Chinese activists for several years, Amnesty International has said.</p>

<p>As the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar presents his report to the 16th session of United Nations Human Rights Council, governments should speak with one voice on Myanmar&rsquo;s long-standing failure to address widespread and systematic human rights violations in the country.</p>

<p>Hundreds of Rohingyas fleeing systematic persecution in Myanmar require immediate assistance from Thailand, India, and Indonesia.</p>

<p>The Thai authorities should drop all charges against human rights defender and web forum moderator Chiranuch Premchaiporn, whose trial continues this week, Amnesty International said today.</p>

<p>D&eacute;j&agrave; vu is a French term meaning &ldquo;already seen&rdquo;.&nbsp; Refoulement is also French, with a literal meaning of &ldquo;force back&rdquo;.&nbsp; Upon receiving a report on Christmas day that Thai authorities had just forced back 166 refugees to Myanmar, I knew that I had seen this before&mdash;on Christmas 2009 in fact.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p>

<p>Amnesty International welcomes the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, but calls on the government of Myanmar to immediately release all of the prisoners of conscience in the country.</p>

<p>Mr. Salil Shetty, Secretary General of AI paid a call on Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on the occasion of his visit to Thailand, at Thai Koo Fah Building, the Government House.</p> <p>The Secretary General of Amnesty International asked the Prime Minister on issues interested by the public and media, such as the political situation, situation in the southern border provinces, situation of displaced persons fleeing from fightings in Myanmar, and l&egrave;se majest&eacute; law.</p>

<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia &ndash; Human rights activists in Kuala Lumpur have produced a play that takes a hard look at the death penalty, taking off from the story of a young Malaysian sentenced to hang in Singapore.</p>

<p>Ahead of World Day against the Death Penalty on 10 October, Amnesty International today urged the USA, the only country that carried out executions in the Americas in 2009, to end its use of this cruel and inhumane punishment. </p> <p>&ldquo;A clear majority of countries have rejected the death penalty. How can the USA claim leadership on human rights yet still commit judicial killings?&rdquo; said Widney Brown, Senior Director of International Law and Policy at Amnesty International.</p>

<p>Thailand must cease invoking the Emergency Decree and the Internal Security Act, as they flout international human rights law and standards, Amnesty International said today. </p> <p>The Emergency Decree and/or the Internal Security Act (ISA) were first invoked outside of Thailand&rsquo;s southern regions, which has witnessed ongoing unrest, on 12 April 2009 during anti-government demonstrations.&nbsp;&nbsp; Either the Emergency Decree or ISA has been put into effect by the authorities in parts of Thailand outside the South for almost half the time since then.</p>