<p>According to media reports, police in Thailand have so far detained six suspects involved in the April 10 suffocation deaths of 54 persons who had been brought in a refrigerated container truck from Burma, and are hunting for one more. </font><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">All are civilians who were directly involved in the transport of this particular group of over a hundred people on route to Phuket, where they were going to work at very low wages in bad conditions like millions more of their compatriots. Meanwhile, the survivors are still facing deportation despite calls for them to be treated with dignity and in accordance with international and domestic standards that protect their rights irrespective of other factors.</font></p>

<p><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="#000000">Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association are outraged by the methods being used by the military government to prevent the media from freely covering the views and activities of the supporters of a No vote in a 10 May referendum on a new constitution.</font></p>

<p>Reporters Without Borders has called for the release of all<br />journalists and cyber-dissidents in Vietnam after a leading Vietnamese<br />blogger was arrested on 19 April 2008 for taking part in protests against<br />China.</p>

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma;">On April 22, Chotisak Onsoong and Chutima Penpak went to Pathumwan Police Station to hear the charges, and launched a campaign called &lsquo;Not Standing is No Crime, Different thinking is No Crime&rsquo;.<span> </span>A cyber petition has been launched at <a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/">www.petitiononline.com</a>, to collect signatures to support their cause.<span> <br /> </span></span></p>

<p>The Asian Network for the Rights of Accident Victims (ANROAV), which is affiliated with the United Nations through its membership of the International Commission of Social Welfare, strongly condemns the globally reported manslaughter of Burmese migrant workers trying to find work in Thailand. </font></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma;">Chotisak Onsoong and his friend are to hear the l&egrave;se majest&eacute; charges against them today (April 22) at 1.30pm at Pathumwan Police Station.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Tahoma">Ban Mai Nong Pheung village, a newly settled community of foreign highlanders in a Chiang Mai district, was raided by the Thai authorities in early April.<span> </span>About 60 community members have been detained until now.<span> </span>Provincial authorities have ordered the original Thai land-owners to demolish all houses and facilities, and restore the land to its original state within 30 days.</span></p>

<p><span>On April 18, </span><span>Pol Lt Col Wattanasak Mungkitjakarndee presented further documents to the Police Crime Suppression Division (CSD) to corroborate the l&egrave;se majest&eacute; allegations he had previously made against BBC's Asia-Pacific correspondent Jonathan Head, and said that he believed there was a conspiracy.</span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span>On April 18, </span><span>five anti-coup activists submitted a petition to Asa Sarasin, the Principal Private Secretary to the King, at the office at the Grand Palace, requesting reconsideration of the reinstatement of Gen Surayud Chulanont to the Privy Council.</span></p>

<p>Malaysian officials have rejected a Tamil-language newspaper&#39;s application for a publishing permit - an annual requirement for periodicals under the draconian Printing Presses and Publications Act (PPPA) - in effect, banning the daily that had existed since the early 1990s.</p>

<p>A Chinese journalist jailed for her reporting told a conference in Paris today (Friday) that press freedom and human rights have worsened in China and that conditions for journalists in the run-up to the Olympics are &quot;considerably more catastrophic&quot; than they were when she was arrested 15 years ago.</p>

<p>We, representing student organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and human rights organizations, as listed below, have gathered today in conjunction to the Olympic torch relay in Bangkok. We express our solidarity with the Tibetans who have fought for their rights but have faced violent crackdown, mass killings, torture and arbitrary detentions last month. </p>