This week’s episode of Weekly Roundup includes:
From Hong Kong, the sentencing of Law Wan-tung, the woman convicted of abusing Erwiana, has become a rallying point of its own as the Judiciary enters the debate on domestic helper regulations.
Two cases from Sri Lanka, one showing that the policing system is still in dire need of reforms after officers murder a man and then kill one of the witnesses, and members of the Sri Lanka Navy are now under investigation for their involvement in enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings.
A 13-year-old boy in Pakistan was abducted in an attempt to coerce his father not to testify regarding the abuse of local political powerbrokers.
Finally, in India, a pattern continues to emerge as two human rights activists have been arrested as “Maoist sympathizers” in a way the supreme court has already ruled unconstitutional.
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