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Hong Kong reporter charged for possessing illegal bullet-proof vest allowed...
The provincial court in central Thailand has allowed a reporter from Hong Kong charged with the violation the country’s Arm Control Act to go overseas.According to the Thai Lawyers for Human Rights...
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Self-described Deep South insurgent vows to fight for ‘independent’
A self-described Muslim insurgent member in a restive Deep South of Thailand released a video clip online, pointing out the Thai state’s hypocrisy in solving the southern conflict and vowing to fight...
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Thai authorities harass anti-junta student activist
Kongpob Areerat The Thai authorities contacted a family of an anti-junta activist in northern Thailand after his activist group urged the junta to step down when the 2015 charter draft was rejected....
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Myanmar's election commission must review discriminatory candidate rejections
Burma Partnership On 20 August, the Union Election Commission (UEC) announcedthe preliminary candidate lists for the upcoming 8 November General Election. So far, 5,866 candidates have been nominated...
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Human rights violations still rife in Myanmar
Kongpob Areerat Despite the euphoria surrounding the upcoming national election in November 2015, human rights abuses and violations are still prevalent in Myanmar with no clear sign of...
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Mine operator in Isan threatens to sue high school student
A gold mine company is threatening to sue a high school student who reported the environmental effects of mining activities in Isan, Thailand’s northeast.On 4 September 2015, Suphab Phrommanee, the...
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Court grants bail to elderly lèse majesté suspect
The Supreme Court has granted bail to an elderly anti-establishment red shirt accused of defaming the monarchy for uploading lèse majesté audio clips.The Supreme Court on Wednesday, 9 September 2015,...
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Another Pheu Thai politician summoned for ‘attitude adjustment’
The Thai junta has summoned one after another Pheu Thai politicians, saying that the politicians sabotaged the regime with false and biased comments.According to Matichon Online, the military on...
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The NCPO’s Democratic Thought Experiment: Nautonomy and Camp Thailand
John Draper Much has been made of the National Council for Peace and Order’s attempts at political reconciliation and its voting down its own draft constitution in an act of political theater. In...
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Woman wanted for allegedly posting lèse majesté on web forum
The Supreme Court on Friday issued an arrest warrant for a woman accused of posting lèse majesté content on the now-defunct Prachatai web forums in 2008 after she did not show up to hear the verdict....
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Anti-junta activist vows to fight on amid risk of heavier sentence
Kongpob Areerat Despite the possibility of heavier jail term, an anti-junta activist charged with violating Thai junta’s political gathering ban vows to stand firm on principles and fight on.The Court...
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Thailand: Dissenting ex-Minister secretly detained
Human Rights Watch Thailand’s junta should immediately disclose the whereabouts of a former government minister whom the military detained on September 9, 2015, Human Rights Watch said today. Pichai...
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74 years-old detained for saying all Thais should be equal
Thai police officers detained an elderly writer after he made comments about the new constitutional draft, saying that it might affect national security. Police officers Saturday afternoon, 12...
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False front rings familiar in the Northeast
The Isaan Record KHON KAEN – In the Northeast, most people were always doubtful. They laughed at the reconciliation trainings that came to their villages. They mocked a constitution drafting process...
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Thai military detains veteran journalist Pravit incommunicado
Pravit Rojanaphruk, a veteran journalist and provocative critic of the Thai military from The Nation newspaper, has been detained incommunicado since Sunday. At 2 pm on Sunday, Pravit reported to the...
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Thai human rights lawyers condemn military detention of political critics in...
Thai Lawyers for Human Rights The military officials have held in custody Mr. Pichai Naripthaphan on 8 September 2015, and Mr. Karoon Hosakul on 10 September 2015. To this, Gen. Prayut Chan-o-cha,...
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3 ethnic Lahu face charges after allegedly being beaten by authorities
National Park officials in Chiang Mai have accused three ethnic Lahu villagers of encroaching into a protected area and assaulting the authorities while the villagers say the authorities beat them....
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Thailand: Free prominent journalist
Human Rights Watch Thailand’s junta should immediately release Pravit Rojanaphruk, a well-known reporter for The Nation newspaper, who has been detained incommunicado since September 13, 2015 for...
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Myanmar's 2015 elections highlight longstanding gender imbalance
Burma Partnership The Union Election Commission has announced that of the 6,189 candidates that registered for the 2015 elections on 8 November, only 800 are women. Though the number of women involved...
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Thai Military releases Pheu Thai politicians and veteran journalist
The Thai junta has released an anti-junta journalist and Pheu Thai politicians detained incommunicado.At 4 pm on Tuesday, 15 September 2015, the junta’s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO)...
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