Human Rights Watch

HRW Condemns Vietnam Detention Facilities

Due to Vietnam being close to drug producing areas it has meant that drug use within the country has always been an issue, as a United Nations consultant said “Vietnam is on a major heroin trafficking route and heroin always leaks off the pipeline.”

Cambodian needle exchange loses it's license

There has been a sharp increase of drug users sharing needles in Phnom Penh after one of only two NGO’s that was legally allowed to distribute clean needles in the capital lost its Needle and Syringe Program (NSP) license.

UN criticised over new Cambodian drug law

“The police asked if I stole anything. I said, ‘No, I’m just a drug user.’ They said ‘You used drugs, where did you get the money?’... They slapped me with their hands and kicked me in the stomach and my shin with their boots. My skin was bleeding and the skin was torn off. They kicked me in the stomach. They beat me to make me confess that I stole something from the market. Two policemen did this in the police station, in the interrogation room... I did not confess but the police still wrote down [a confession]...

Cambodian drug rehab centres: Abusive, Illegal, Ineffective

THEY have been beaten, whipped, shocked with electric batons and even raped. Food is scarce and forced labour common. Cambodians who have spent time in the country's drug detention centres describe these outrageous abuses and horrible conditions, and more.

Where darkness knows no limits

This month Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a report detailing the experiences of former detainees in the drug detoxification centers in China's Yunnan province.

Human Rights Watch report highlights the torture of people who use drugs in Cambodia

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