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Thai Police establish lèse majesté investigation team
The Thai police have established a special investigation team to intensify a crackdown on lèse majesté cases amid speculation about lèse majesté charges against a well-known fortune-teller who helped...
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CSOs' statement on upcoming multi-party general elections
Burma Partnership Myanmar will hold general elections on November 8, 2015, the first multi-party elections in 25 years since the result of 1990 general elections, held after the 8.8.88 democracy...
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Lessons for Thailand on 50th anniversary of Indonesia's bloody coup
Nithin Coca This year is the 50th anniversary of the coup that led to the deaths of an estimated 500,000-3 million, one of the worst episodes of violence in the post-World War II world. Today, few...
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First ever Buddhist Thai indicted for rebellion in Thailand's restive Deep South
A Buddhist Thai youth has been indicted for alleged involvement in the separatist movement for the independence of Thailand’s three southernmost provinces, which are predominantly Muslim Malay....
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Red Shirt gets 30 months suspended jail term for posting fake royal statement
The military court sentenced an anti-establishment red shirt accused of publishing a fake royal statement to five years imprisonment with the jail term suspended.The Military Court of Bangkok on...
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Mentally ill man faces lèse majesté for calling removal of officials
The Military Court has granted bail to a man with symptoms of psychosis who is accused of lèse majesté for submitting a statement calling for the removal of government officials.The Bangkok Military...
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Woman acquitted of lèse majesté for posting messages on Prachatai
The Supreme Court has dismissed charges against a woman accused of posting lèse majesté messages on the Prachatai web-board in 2008, citing inconclusive evidence.At the Criminal Court of Bangkok,...
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UN Women Executive Director addresses young women and girls at World YWCA...
On 16 October, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka attended a remarkable event in Bangkok organized by the YWCA to expand the advocacy on...
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Military presses police on new lese majeste purge
After the Thai National Police Chief set up a special investigation team tasked with cracking down on lese majeste cases, a high-ranking police revealed that the team was formed after the military...
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Thai Army forms ‘Army Cyber Centre’ to protect the monarchy
The Thai Army has established an ‘Army Cyber Centre’ to boost the military’s online defence capacity whose primary task is to protect the Thai monarchy. On Monday, 19 October 2015, Gen Sommai Kaotira,...
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Fortune-teller involved in organising ‘Bike for Dad’ detained for lese majeste
The military court detained three lese majeste suspects accused of claiming falsely about the monarchy for personal benefits, one of whom is a well known fortune-teller involved in organising ‘Bike for...
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Court sent 2 northeastern villagers to prison for land encroachment
The Provincial Court of the northeastern province of Sakon Nakhon sent two villagers to prison for encroaching into national parks while six others received suspended jail term. According to Esaan...
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TLHR on the enforced disappearance of the famous fortuneteller
Thai Lawyers for Human Rights In the evening of 16 October 2015, some media reported that Mr. Suriyan Sucharitpolawong was taken from his residence by state officials for allegedly committing a lèse...
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Sakon Nakhon Court jails villagers for forest encroachment
Anne Sadler and William Lee SAKON NAKHON – The ongoing clash between the government’s forest reclamation policy and community land rights in the Northeast came to a head on October 21st. Standing...
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TIMELINE: Key events in Myanmar 2010-2015
Myanmar Now Myanmar Now gives an overview of important events leading up to elections on Nov. 8, billed as Myanmar’s first free and fair national vote in 25 years.INFOGRAPHIC: Key events in Myanmar...
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A Hard Night’s Day
Harrison George It is a commonplace of police procedurals. Somewhere around page 180, the hero detective, stymied by a lack of clues, the stupidity of his superiors and his personal failings...
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Police officer charged for lese majeste dies in custody
A police officer accused of lese majeste for falsely claiming about the monarchy for personal benefits together with a famous fortune-teller committed suicide in prison.The Department of Corrections on...
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The psychology of authoritarianism
John Draper Authoritarianism as a form of government has been analyzed in some depth by the political scientist Juan Linz, and the relevant Wikipedia page provides four qualities of such governments...
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Prison
Rungsila Note: “Rungsila” is the pen name of Siraphop, a construction contractor who is around fifty years old. Prior to the 22 May 2014 coup, he was well-known online as a writer of political poems...
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Retired teacher charged with sedition for giving flower to anti-junta activist
The authorities arrested and pressed sedition charge against a 77-year-old teacher for giving flowers to support an anti-junta activist.According to Free Thai Legal Aid (FTLA), the FTLA lawyers on...
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