In association with the International Commission of Jurists

Asia-Pacific

21 Oct

[Ashley S. Kinseth is an international human rights lawyer working on atrocity crimes and statelessness and a member of the Genocide Experts Working Group convened by Genocide Watch. She has conducted field research in Myanmar's Rakhine State and in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh and India.]  In Part I, I described the elaborate system of permits, arbitrary taxes, village labor quotas, and...

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21 Oct

[Ashley S. Kinseth is an international human rights lawyer working on atrocity crimes and statelessness and a member of the Genocide Experts Working Group convened by Genocide Watch. She has conducted field research in Myanmar's Rakhine State and in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh and India.]  Rohingya fleeing Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State pay $300 to $500 for documents to get past Arakan...

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16 Oct

[Dr. Pouria Askary is an Associate Professor of International Law at Allameh Tabataba’i University. Dr. Katayoun Hosseinnejad is an independent researcher and consultant.] On August 24, 2026, the U.S. Department of the Treasury launched a new economic campaign against Iran, which it described as targeting the country’s “lifelines”. The so called “Operation Economic Outcast” as reflected in the statement of the Secretary...

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12 Oct

[Miraj Hosen is a Research Assistant at the Bangladesh Society of International Law.] On 6 July 2026, Bangladesh deposited instruments of accession to three International Maritime Organization liability treaties. The instruments were the 1992 Protocol to the Civil Liability Convention, the 2001 Bunkers Convention, and the 2007 Nairobi Wreck Removal Convention. The latest IMO status record lists those deposits, while the...

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09 Oct

[Sanmay Moitra is a lecturer at Jindal Global Law School, India who has worked on international human rights litigation before international courts and advised on matters involving international law before the Supreme Court of India. He holds an Advanced LL.M. in Public International Law from Leiden University, an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from Georgetown University, and a BA in...

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02 Oct

[Arez Rizgari is an Iranian scholar. The author is writing under a pseudonym because they are concerned that this post will subject them to political retaliation or restrictions on their academic freedom by Iranian authorities.] The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has repeatedly targeted Rojhilat (Iranian Kurdistan) parties based in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) with missile and drone strikes...

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15 Sep

[Mohammad Zayaan Asimi is a D.Phil. candidate in socio-legal studies at the University of Oxford.] Introduction Internet services in Pakistan-administered Kashmir (Kashmir) were severely restricted since 5th June 2026 after widespread protests in the region linked to electoral reforms and other socio-political demands of the people. More than forty people were killed, and hundreds were wounded after the army and police forces...

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02 Sep

[Subinoy Mustofi Eron is Design Director at Netra News and a co-founder of Activate Rights, a Bangladesh-based digital rights collective. Georgia Edwards is Visual Investigations Training & Partnerships Manager at WITNESS.  Dean Issacharoff is the creator of VSIN, an AI powered visual investigations platform.] Introduction In July 2024, hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshis took to the streets in an uprising against Sheikh Hasina’s government....

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21 Aug

[Arez Rizgari is an Iranian scholar. The author is writing under a pseudonym because they are concerned that this post will subject them to political retaliation or restrictions on their academic freedom by Iranian authorities.] On the morning of 17 July 2026, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) struck the offices of the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan in the Kurdistan...

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15 May

[Dr Xudong Zhang is a lecturer at the School of Law, Shanghai Maritime University] From the South China Sea to the East China Sea, Asia's waters are witnessing an unprecedented intertwining of fisheries and geopolitics. When Chinese fishing vessels are detained by Japan's Fisheries Agency in waters off southwest Nagasaki prefecture, when the Korea Coast Guard uses force against Chinese fishing...

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06 May

[Himanil Raina is a final year PhD candidate and teaching assistant in the Department of International Law at the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID). He completed his B.A. LL.B (Hons) from the NALSAR University of Law and is also an Honorary Adjunct Fellow at the National Maritime Foundation.] In mid-February, the frigate IRIS Dena (75), the oiler IRIS Bushehr (422) and the...

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