<p>The Asian Human Rights Commission has obtained information that immigration authorities have taken into custody at least 85 persons from Pakistan who are seeking asylum. The group includes babies, small children, pregnant women, and the sick and elderly. The persons have registered with the United Nations for asylum and so far 17 have reportedly been officially recognized as refugees.</p>

<p>Reporters Without Borders calls on the Thai authorities to release Sun Shucai, an 87-year-old refugee activist and journalist who was arrested in Bangkok on 8 December. He is now in a Bangkok immigration detention centre after a judge fined him 3,000 Baht (75 euros) on 9 December and ordered the authorities to examine the possibility of deporting him.</p>

<p>Academics, journalists and activists including <span class="published-content-body">Daniel Ellsberg, Barbara Ehrenreich, Arundhati Roy, Noam Chomsky have signed on an <a href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/592/p/dia/action/public/index.sjs?action_KEY=5343">online petition</a> in support of the WikiLeaks. <br /> </span></p>

<p>Over the past seven months or so, the Abhisit Vejjajiva administration appears to have perfected the recipe to make a mockery of truth and reconciliation when it comes to the handling of red-shirt protests and their aftermath, which led to 91 deaths and two thousands injuries.</p>

<p>On International Migrant&rsquo;s Day (18th December 2010), the State Enterprises Workers&rsquo; Relations Confederation (SERC), the Human Rights and Development Foundation (HRDF) and the Thai Labour Solidarity Committee (TLSC) requests the Royal Thai Government (RTG) to re-open registration for all migrants in Thailand, review its deportation policy, cooperate with the United Nations in examination of violation of migrant rights, repeal discriminatory policies affecting migrants including wage deductions for a deportation fund and formulate long term migration policies in response to actual</p>

<p>A recently built hydropower dam on the Longjiang River in China's Yunnan Province is causing severe disruption to thousands of villagers relying on cross-border trade in Burma's northern Shan State, according to a new report by local Shan researchers.</p>

<p>Internet activists in Thailand criticized the government for infringing on the rights of online users and called for amending the controversial Computer Crime Act.</p>

<p>Two detained red shirts, who were recently released after serving six months for violating the emergency decree in May, said they received no proper legal representation or counselling and were summarily handed down six-month imprisonment terms. </p>

<p>For the Human Rights Day in 2010 the Asian Human Rights Commission presents the reports on the state of human rights in eleven countries in Asia; <a href="http://www.humanrights.asia/resources/hrreport/2010/AHRC-SPR-001-2010.pdf">Bangladesh</a>, <a href="http://www.humanrights.asia/resources/hrreport/2010/AHRC-SPR-002-2010.pdf">Burma</a>, <a href="http://www.humanrights.asia/resources/hrreport/2010/AHRC-SPR-003-2010.pdf">Cambodia</a>, <a href="http://www.humanrights.asia/resources/hrreport/2010/AHRC-SPR-004-2010.pdf">India</a>, <a href="http://www.humanrights.asia/resources/hrreport/2010/AH</p> </a></p>

<p>Since the enforcement of the Computer Crime Act in July 2007, there have been 185 cases in relations to the CCA up to July 2010. There have been 117 court orders to block access to 74,686 URLs. </p>

<p>(Hong Kong, December 9, 2010) Anti-human rights forces and their allies have re-emerged to take control of key national institutions in Thailand and are digging in to fight for political control of the country, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) warned on Thursday.</p>

<p>The issuance of an Interpol wanted notice for the Australian founder of Wikileaks within days after his website began releasing hundreds of thousands of classified United States government cables is blatantly political.</p>