News & comment: ASIA PACIFIC


Anti-corruption advice for Korea - an interview with Domenico Pacitti
February 11 2004: Domenico Pacitti explains to business editor Lee Chang-sup of the Korea Times how the current Korean anti-corruption drive can avoid the pitfalls of Italy's ill-fated Operation Clean Hands.

Appeal for freedom of speech in China
February 1 2004: Fifty-four Chinese citizens have received prison sentences of between two and twelve years for expressing and exchanging opinions on the Internet. The true figure is believed to be very much higher.

Italy's Operation Clean Hands travels to Korea
January 25 2004: Over a decade ago Operation Clean Hands produced a political earthquake in Italy. Now a similar operation is in full swing in Korea. Lee Chang-sup reports from Seoul.

Appeal for release of Zhao Changqing
September 4 2003: JUST Response appeals to President Hu Jintao for the release of Chinese dissident and democracy activist Zhao Changqing.

Chinese buses help save on execution expenses
July 7 2003: Amnesty International recounts how converted buses are being increasingly used as mobile death chambers to execute prisoners by lethal injection.

Hunger strike for Bhopal justice
July 10 2002: Three have gone on hunger strike outside the Indian parliament in New Delhi over the  government's bid to reduce criminal charges against those responsible for the 1984 gas disaster in Bhopal. Indra Sinha launches an urgent appeal for political support and reveals the corporate greed behind the incredible horrors of "that night".

See also: JUST Response Letters

 

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