<p>Since the 19 September 2006 coup, the Asian Legal Resource Center has observed the growing constriction of freedom of expression in Thailand.</p>

<p>Exactly one year ago today, the Thai military launched its dispersal operations against the Red Shirt protest rally, which had been going on for three months. The media became a casualty in the conflict, which saw 92 people, including two photographers, being killed and many others wounded.</p>

<p>On 13th March 2011 the dictatorship in Burma broke a 22 year long ceasefire agreement with the Shan State Army &ndash; North. 3,500 Burmese Army soldiers took part in a military offensive in north-central Shan State, an area with a population of 100,000. Sixty-five clashes were reported in the first three weeks of the dictatorship breaking the ceasefire. Civilians are being targeted in the military offensive, with mortar bombs fired at civilian villages.</p>

<p>We, bloggers in Vietnam, submit to Mr. Le Hong Anh, Minister of Public Security and Mr. Pham Gia Khiem, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic Socialist of Vietnam, our collective requests as follows:</p> <p>Mr. Nguyen Van Hai, 59 years of age, commonly known as blogger Dieu Cay, and who is most concerned for among all bloggers in Vietnam, and whom was sentenced to 30 months of prison by the Ho Chi Minh court because of a trumped-up charge of &ldquo;tax invasion&rdquo; against him.&nbsp; On October 19, 2010, Mr. Nguyen Van Hai had served full term this arbitrary sentence, and he was supposed to be released immediately.&nbsp; </p>

<p>One year after the bloody military crackdown on the red-shirt protest that ended on May 19, its unintended consequences that still reverberate today.</p>

<p>Press freedom and online freedom of information are still being flouted in Burma, three months after <a href="http://en.rsf.org/burma-than-shwe-03-05-2010,37287.html">Thein Sein</a>&rsquo;s election as a civilian president. He promised to &ldquo;respect the role of the media&rdquo; but heavy jail sentences for journalists, suspension of newspapers and police raids on Internet caf&eacute;s show that there has been no let-up in controls and intimidation. And now a string of new measures have just tightened control over Internet use.</p>

<p>The Myanmar government&rsquo;s reduction of prison terms must be swiftly followed by the immediate and unconditional release of all prisoners of conscience, Amnesty International said today.</p>

<p><em>Empty Response to UN Envoy&rsquo;s Call for Release of All 2,100 Political Prisoners</em></p> <p>(New York, May 16, 2011) &ndash; The Burmese government&rsquo;s decision to grant a one-year sentence reduction to all prisoners is a slap in the face to a senior United Nations&rsquo; envoy who had just called for the release of all political prisoners in Burma, Human Rights Watch said today.</p>

<p>Paris-Bangkok, May 16, 2011. Accountability for human rights abuses perpetrated during the March-May 2010 street protests remains seriously lacking one year following government operations that violently ended the Red-Shirt protests, all the while as the authorities continue to curtail freedom of expression with draconian legislations, said the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its member organization, the Union for Civil Liberty (UCL).<br /> &nbsp;</p>

<p>For the first time in several years, Amnesty International acknowledged yesterday that there was at least one prisoner of conscience in Thailand. This was declared in the agency's recently released 2011 report on human rights, which details how the freedom of expression is being curbed through the use of the emergency decree, the lese majeste law and the Computer Crime Act.</p>

<p style="text-align: left;">As said, hard and fast data is hard to obtain. How many people are under LM surveillance, have cases against them that they do or don&rsquo;t know about, how many sit in jail without being charged, await trial, or are already convicted nobody knows exactly.</p>

<p>In 24 hours, the Ugandan Parliament may vote on a brutal new law that carries the death penalty for homosexuality. Thousands of Ugandans could face execution -- just for being gay.</p>