Thailand: Internet Provider Faces Lese Majeste Conviction
Human Rights Watch Free Speech of Online Media on Trial (New York, April 24, 2012) – The trial of an internet service provider on lese majeste charges puts Thailand’s web moderators at risk of long...
View ArticleReal Thais Can’t Possibly Oppose the Lese Majeste Law, Can They?
Pravit Rojanaphruk Many ultra-royalists whom I engaged with over the course of many months of twitter exchanges and debates tend to think that something must be wrong with Thais who are against the...
View ArticlePoem from “Aunty Oo” to “Ah Kong [Uncle] SMS”
Note: This poem is from Mrs. Rosmalin (Aunty Oo), the wife of Mr. Amphon, or Ah Kong [Uncle] SMS. Mr. Amphon is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for allegedly sending 4 SMS messages with...
View Article‘Mob Ammat’
The gathering of royalists in front of the Army Club on Vibhavadi Rangsit Rd on 21 April to ‘recall power from politicians betraying the land’ has been dismissed by ASTV-Manager as an ‘ammat mob’ or a...
View ArticleRoyalist witness says Nitirat’s proposed amendment of 112 is the way to go
On 24 April, prior to the start of hearings on Somyot Prueksakasemsuk’s lèse majesté case, the defence lawyers asked the Criminal Court to send their petition to the Constitutional Court to consider...
View ArticleTotal Reform Is Needed to Make AICHR Independent, Effective and Relevant to...
Solidarity for Asian People’s Advocacy Task Force on ASEAN and Human Rights (Bangkok, 26 April 2012) The performance of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) has been...
View ArticleASEAN must move swiftly to implement a Framework Instrument on the Protection...
ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus BANGKOK -- The ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus (AIPMC) today called on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to ensure it works swiftly...
View ArticleDefective Force/Detective Farce
Harrison George It’s a great time to be a crime reader. From Tartan Noir to Scandinavian sleuthing, there’s a ton of good reading out there. It’s comforting to see the same threads emerging....
View ArticleChiranuch's letter prior to the verdict
30th April 2012 Dear All, I write to you to share my thoughts before the verdict will be read in the next 7 hours. Although I still don't know any answer for my life, I wish we can win the case but I...
View ArticleCourt postpones verdict for Chiranuch to 30 May
On 30 April, the Criminal Court in Bangkok postponed its verdict in the case of Prachatai Director Chiranuch Premchaiporn to 30 May, citing that the case had a lot of documents. Many observers were...
View Article‘Shooting the Messenger’: On Chiranuch’s Verdict Delay
Lisa Gardner, Asian Correspondent As reported widely and so too here at Siam Voices: Earlier today, with the eyes of international media upon it, Thailand’s judiciary would delay the delivery of a...
View ArticleWhen Some Reds are like Ultra-Royalists
Pravit Rojanaphruk Soon after Vipar Daomanee, a former Thammasat University lecturer, criticized red-shirt leader Nattawut Sai-gua for his endorsement of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s decision...
View ArticleBurma's Reform Is Still on Parole
David Scott Mathieson and Benjamin Zawacki There remain hundreds of prisoners the government denies are political. In Burma this week, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon urged foreign...
View ArticleEuropean Burma Network joint statement on Investment and Trade in Burma
International Federation for Human Rights Paris, Bangkok, 2 May 2012 - With many sanctions against the military-backed government in Burma in the process of being suspended or lifted, there is intense...
View ArticleSomyot: Jakrapob Penkair wrote the articles
On 1 May, Somyot Prueksakasemsuk testified to the court that ‘Jitr Pollachan’ was the penname of Jakrapop Penkair who wrote two articles which brought lèse majesté charges down on him. He said that in...
View ArticleWorld Press Freedom Day: Attacks against journalists around the world
Amnesty International Journalists working in traditional media outlets from Pakistan to Colombia, Mexico to Sudan plus most nations across Eastern Europe and the Middle East faced harassment, attacks,...
View ArticleWorld Press Freedom Day 2012: A journalist killed every five days, six new...
Reporters Without Borders Today, World Press Freedom Day 2012, Reporters Without Borders condemns the furious pace of physical attacks on news providers and reports that a total of 21 journalists, and...
View ArticleReport 2012: No longer business as usual for tyranny and injustice
Amnesty International Strong arms trade treaty needed as UN Security Council increasingly looks unfit for purpose The courage shown by protesters in the past 12 months has been matched by a failure of...
View ArticleTHAILAND: Relatives filing a civil lawsuit to demand justice and damage claim...
Cross Culture Foundation On Thursday 24 May 2012, at 10.00 am, representatives from the Lawyers Council of Thailand (LCT), an attorney from Cross Cultural Foundation (CrCF) and relatives of Private...
View ArticleMy Rules Rule, OK
Harrison George Comments on the Prachatai English website are descending into the kind of undisciplined shambles that one normally associates with Premier League footballers when their team is losing...
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