Some of these documentaries are, “Unjust – a story of three surviving widows of three human rights activists who were assassinated in their countries”. Mr Somchai Neelaphaijit, a senior human rights lawyer in Thailand who was abducted while travelling in Bangkok and thereafter disappeared. Josefina Bergstein has done several stories on torture victims in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal and other countries. In the present documentary “The Activist”, she covers the problems involved in human rights work in the Asian countries through a long interview with Basil Fernando, Human Rights lawyer and activist who has been involved in human rights work for many decades. With large amounts of photographs from Sri Lanka, Cambodia, and Hong Kong, these stories have been beautifully illustrated.

Source: Sunday Times March 02, 2018 04:52 UTC