The Covid-19 pandemic has aggravated the culture of hate against ethnic minorities and migrants in Malaysia. After years of having to endure the Malay supremacist that systematically excludes them from political and economic activities in varying degrees, minorities and migrants in Malaysia have now been blamed for the coronavirus outbreak. Read more…
Ahead of the general election in November, the human rights situations in Myanmar are worsening. The government has continued to impose mobile internet blackouts in such turbulent states as Chin and Rakhine to silence dissent, leaving more than a million people without online network connections. Meanwhile, the democratically elected government Read more…
Internet freedom in Indonesia has been experiencing a downward trend for three years, as indicated by the country’s scores on the latest Freedom House’s report. Repeated restrictions on internet connectivity during protests and targeted attacks on activists as well as journalists have been cited as the reasons for this declining Read more…