Japan: Urge Bangladesh, Myanmar to Protect Rights

Expand Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi (R) meets Japan's Foreign Minister Taro Kono during the World Economic Forum on ASEAN in Hanoi, Vietnam September 12, 2018. © 2018 REUTERS/Kham (Tokyo) – Japan’s foreign minister, Taro Kono, should raise critical human rights issues during his visit to Bangladesh and Myanmar between July 29 to August 3, 2019, Human Rights Watch said in a July 26 letter to the foreign minister. “Foreign Minister Kono should press the Bangladeshi government about arrests under its draconian digital security laws and online censorship that is stifling peaceful…

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