Shibani Mahtani

Jan 2, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Shibani Mahtani

The countries of Southeast Asia are helping each other intimidate and extradite exiled government critics, according to a Post analysis of cases in the regionPHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Earlier this year, the Cambodian government brought the full diplomatic weight of the state down on a seemingly slight target: a 36-year-old maid working for a middle-class family just outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Nuon Toeun was neither an activist nor an opposition leader.

Dec 11, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Shibani Mahtani

"They told me that they are going to hand me over to the police. I'm worried.""If they deport me to China, things will go very bad.""God willing, I hope everything will go well."THMA DA, Cambodia - The arrival of Cambodian police officers should have come as a relief for Abdureqip Rahman. The young Uyghur man had been trapped inside a high-walled, barbed-wire compound for 10 weeks, working alongside others trafficked here and forced, often through beatings, to run online scams.

Nov 20, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Shibani Mahtani |Vic Chiang

People wait under umbrellas to enter the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts for the sentencing of 45 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong on Tuesday. (Leung Man Hei/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)By Shibani Mahtani and Vic ChiangNovember 20, 2024 at 2:02 a.m. ESTAs the court cleared out after the sentencing of dozens of Hong Kong’s most prominent activists and pro-democracy icons late Tuesday morning, a lone woman stood up on a flight on low steps and held up a sign.

Nov 19, 2024 | spokesman.com | Shibani Mahtani

A Hong Kong court on Tuesday sentenced 45 pro-democracy leaders, the city’s most prominent activists among them, to prison terms of up to 10 years. None received sentences of less than four years and two months.

Nov 18, 2024 | msn.com | Shibani Mahtani

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