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SINGAPORE: Detained author of book on death penalty denied access to lawyer PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
A human rights lawyer claimed on 19 July 2010 that the Singapore government is denying him access to his client, British author Alan Shadrake, who had been arrested over defamation charges, media reports said.

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Human Rights Watch asks Malaysian govt not to stop the presses PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 19 July 2010

(July 18, 2010; New York) - Malaysia's Ministry of Home Affairs should stop threatening to close opposition party newspapers, reverse bans on politically sensitive books, and end harassment of independent journalists, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should also repeal the 1984 Printing Presses and Publications Act, which gives the Home Affairs Ministry effective censorship over all publication content, Human Rights Watch said.


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CAMBODIA: Authorities ban two books deemed critical of the government PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 19 July 2010
Two books which the Cambodian government claimed contained "unsuitable political content" were banned last week, even as the police purchased copies of the said books in bulk and warned the bookstores against selling them in the near future, media reports said.

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