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Thailand should release asylum seekers
Human Rights Watch Thai authorities should release 64 asylum seekers detained in a recent raid who are being held in immigration detention, Human Rights Watch said today. The asylum seekers –...
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The Nation forces veteran journalist Pravit to quit
Pravit Rojanaphruk, The Nation senior reporter and fierce critic of the junta, on Wednesday said on Wednesday he was forced to quit his job at The Nation Newspaper after he was detained incommunicado...
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TLHR opinion on the establishment of temporary remand facility in military camp
Thai Lawyers for Human Rights The establishment of temporary remand facility in Nakhon Chaisri and the transfer of two suspects in the Erawan bombing to the temporary remand facility make the...
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Thai junta takes-down red shirt radio aerial in Isan
The Thai junta ordered removal of an aerial of a local anti-establishment red shirt radio station in Isan, Thailand's Northeast.On Wednesday, 16 September 2015, Anon Sannan, General Secretary of the...
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Veteran journalist Pravit says military ill-treated him during detention
Veteran journalist Pravit Rojanaphruk was detained incommunicado by the military junta for allegedly spreading false information about the junta on social media. Pravit is known for his anti-junta,...
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Thai military intimidates environment researchers in Isan
Military officers in Isan, Thailand’s Northeast, intimidated academics and students on environmental research in areas with potash mining planned. Three military officers from 24th Army Region base...
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Appeal court rules ex-lese majeste convict guilty for not answering junta’s...
An ex-lèse majesté convict was found guilty by the Appeal Court for failing to answer a junta summons after months of intimidation from the military. Nat brings shorts, flip flops, and a toothbrush in...
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Old Vinegar in Old Bottles
Harrison George Editor’s Note: Harrison George wishes to apologize for his temporary absence from this website. This was due to an illness of a medical nature and not, contrary to the scurrilous...
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Thais commemorate 9th anniversary of 2006 coup
Anti-coup activists on Saturday commemorated the 2006 military coup, arguably the event which triggered Thailand’s polarized political conflict, amid tight security in central Bangkok. On 19...
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Pattani with two t’s or one? The politics of naming
Thaweeporn Kummetha “Patani” is now a very controversial term used to refer to the area encompassing the provinces of Pattani (with 2 t’s,), Yala, Narathiwat, and four provinces of Songkhla, mostly...
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Thai junta to push eviction for special economic zones on northern border
The Thai junta leader has urged the relevant authorities to speed up a special economic zone project in northern Thailand despite opposition from local people who are to be evicted.On 18 September...
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Thailand: Member states must use UN review to demand key human rights...
International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) UN member states must use the next Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Thailand to demand key human rights commitments from the government, FIDH, its...
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Thai authorities to step up surveillance via ‘single internet gateway’
The cabinet under the junta has ordered relevant agencies to speed up the process to reduce multiple internet gateways to a single one in order to increase the efficiency of the state’s surveillance...
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Conservative Buddhists urge Cultural Ministry to review controversial Thai film
Conservative Buddhist organisations in Thailand calls on the authorities to review a horror movie about a young novice, saying that the film insults Buddhism and Buddhist monks.On Wednesday morning, 23...
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World leaders should hold Thai junta to rights, democracy pledges
Human Rights Watch World leaders gathered for the United Nations General Assembly should urge Thailand’s prime minister, Gen. Prayut Chan-ocha, to end repression of human rights and quickly restore...
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Rubbing salt on open wounds: enforced disappearance, torture and...
Kongpob Areerat and Thaweeporn Kummetha More than ten years after the war on drugs wreaked havoc on many Lahu ethnic minority families in the hilly northern Thai-Myanmar border, arbitrary abuses and...
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Submissive Obedience to Thuggish University Sadism (aka SOTUS)
Harrison George Thai universities have just started their delayed academic year, but bang on cue, the articles pour in about what happens to new students at institutes of higher education.In the...
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Military and criminal court disagree over lese majeste case
The military and criminal court for the first time has disagreed whether which court should have the jurisdiction to try a lese majeste suspect.The Criminal Court on Ratchada Rd., Bangkok, on Tuesday,...
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Burma’s 2015 Elections: No place for ignorance, discrimination, or the Ma Ba Tha
Burma Partnership Partnership On 15 September 2015, the foreign embassies of Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Norway, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America issued a...
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Thailand’s Section 44 and Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution compared
John Draper This column is not an attempt to draw parallels between General Prayut Chan-ocha and Adolf Hitler nor to compare Thailand at present with Germany post-1933; it is an attempt to understand...
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