Human Rights Watch: negative record in Asia

World News Adina Camarasu
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Human Rights situation in Asia has seen a negative record in 2016, a year characterized by the promotion of extrajudicial killings and the failure of some Asian countries to protect its vulnerable groups.

This fact was revealed by the annual report of Human Rights Watch, as a press release stated on Thursday, according to DPA.

In some countries, like the Philippines and China, ‘the strong leaders have imposed their authority to the detriment of the government, that was unable to respond to their actions, as rulers of the law, guaranteeing the prosperity and security of the state’, showed the 687 pages report of HRW.

The report details cases of arrest or even physical elimination of governments’ critics, executions, religious and racial discrimination, censorship of the press and other such abuses that contravene The Human Rights.

‘The Chinese government has stepped up its aggressive campaign against the civil society activists and online expression in 2016. This extended attack on the Human Rights began when President Xi Jinping took over the office in 2013.

Jinping’s reign included mixing the democratic institutions in Hong Kong and the abuses committed outside the borders of China’, the report of HRW stated.

The document noted the unprecedented level of extrajudicial executions in the campaign against drug traffickers in the Philippines and eliminating the state’s critics in Malaysia.

Moreover, other concerns include cases of murder and imprisonment against dissidents in Cambodia, in the light of local elections this year and the parliamentary elections in 2018, the failure of the Indonesia’s authorities to ensure the protection of minority’s rights and the harassment of Human Rights activists in Vietnam.