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Four public universities to be privatised
Laws to privatize four leading universities in Thailand are to come into force amid concerns from many student activist groups.On Friday, 17 July 2015, laws on the privatisation of four leading state...
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Court bombing suspect asks police to reinvestigate torture allegation
An elderly bombing suspect has urged the police to reinvestigate his alleged brutal torture by military officers while he was detained under martial law.Sansern Sriounruen, a 63 years-old suspect in a...
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We joined the navy to sue the world
Harrison George Witness testimony has ended in the defamation case brought by the Royal Thai Navy against two fruit vendors in Phuket, with the verdict set to be delivered at the end of the next...
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Thai reform commission to establish national media council
The Thai authorities have given a green light to the bill to establish a national media council, saying that it will improve media ethics and freedom. However, some say that the bill will result in the...
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Surveillance program reportedly installed in Thailand's Deep South: Wikileaks
After Wikileaks released documents revealing that the Thai authorities allegedly purchased a surveillance program from an Italian firm, the leaked documents also reported that the staffs from the IT...
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New candidates of national human rights agency named
The Thai national human rights agency has announced a list of seven candidates to replace the old human rights commissioners.On Tuesday, 21 July 2015, the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand...
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Ultra-royalist nominated as rights commissioner; only the tip of the iceberg
Kongpob Areerat After the names of the candidates for the National Human Rights Commissions of Thailand (NHRC) were revealed, many eyebrows were raised over the nomination of an ultra-royalist with a...
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Key PULO member tells stories from jail, his role behind peace talks in...
Thaweeporn Kummetha, Hussan Tohdong and Muhammad Dueramae A Key PULO member talks about his 18 years behind bars, during which he helped to further peace talks.Haji Sama-ae Thanam, former leader of...
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Thailand: A view inside a military court in the “land of smiles”
Yuval Ginbar I'm a legal adviser, so not exactly a stranger to courts. I've even been in Thai courts before. But I still find the scene surreal. I was in a Bangkok military court on 7 July 2015, and...
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Deep South people in favour of peace talks, but distrust security officials
A poll conducted by a think tank in Thailand’s Deep South shows that people in the restive border provinces are in favour of peace talks despite their distrust of state volunteer corps.The latest...
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3 red shirts sentenced to 3 years in jail over seditious banner
A provincial court in northern Thailand has sentenced three anti-establishment red shirts to three years’ imprisonment each with the jail term suspended for hanging a banner with a message deemed...
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Southerners come to Bangkok to protest coal-fired power plant project
A large crowd gathered in downtown Bangkok to protest the government’s plan to build a coal-fired power plant in a touristic southern province on the Andaman Coast.On Thursday afternoon, 23 July 2015,...
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Thailand: Reject rights commission nominees
Human Rights Watch Thailand’s national assembly should reject the nominees for the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), whose selection process did not meet international standards, Human Rights...
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Student protesting against Civic Duty’s exam scolded as mentally ill
A high-school executive has scolded a grade 12 student activist who refused to take a Civic Duty class exam as being mentally ill while an education minister told media not to pay much attention about...
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Thailand acquires advanced electronic surveillance police state capability
John Draper A recent piece of investigative journalism by The Bangkok Post has provided evidence of Thailand acquiring an advanced electronic surveillance capability. Traditionally a non-NATO treaty...
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Military-sponsored film about Deep South ignores truth about conflict, is way...
Asaree Thaitrakulpanich and Thaweeporn Kummetha We just need faith, and soon everything will be back to normal, like it was before. Near the end of Latitude No. 6, a music video montage of the main...
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Rights expert quits NHRC ahead of new commissioners’ appointment
An expert on civil and political rights who serves as an advisor to Thailand’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has resigned, saying that most of the candidates for commissioner are not...
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Rights academics and religious groups call for civilian protection in Deep...
A network of religious leaders and human rights academics in Southern Thailand has urged all parties to the conflict in the restive southern border provinces to abstain from violence against civilians...
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Nidhi Eoseewong: The Murderous State
Nidhi Eoseewong Prefatory note to the English translation: During the crackdown on red shirt protestors during April-May 2010, at least 94 people were killed and over 2000 injured. In an unprecedented...
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Thailand: Insurgents target Buddhist monks
Human Rights Watch Separatist insurgents in southern Thailand should immediately stop their attacks on civilians, Human Rights Watch said today. Deliberate or indiscriminate attacks on civilians in an...
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