By Achara Ashayagachat
Bangkok Post
HUMAN RIGHTS
Southeast Asian media and human rights activists are being increasingly ostracised and threatened, both legally and physically, according to the Southeast Asian Press Alliance (Seapa) annual report.
Journalist killings in 2009 illustrate the vulnerability of the press in Southeast Asia, particularly the November massacre in Maguindanao, Philippines, which claimed the lives of 31 journalists, Bangkok-based Seapa said in a statement released at the weekend.
The group said journalists are being physically threatened in Indonesia and Thailand, ostracised and demonised in Burma and Vietnam, and imprisoned, detained and harassed everywhere, from East Timor to Malaysia and Singapore.
Lawyers and human rights advocates working to defend journalists are also being arrested and harassed in Vietnam, Burma, Cambodia, Singapore and the Philippines, Seapa said.
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