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Thailand – Charging and ill-treatment of student human rights defenders
Front Line Defenders Arrest warrants against Sirawit Seritiwat, Chonthicha Jaeung-Rew, Chanoknan Ruamsap, Korakot Saengyenpan and Abhisit Sapnaphapan were issued on 13 January 2016 by the Bangkok...
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Court dismisses murder charges against PDRC bombing suspects
The Provincial Court in the eastern province of Trat has dismissed murder charges against three suspects in a PDRC bombing case, but sentenced one suspect to five years in jail for possessing illegal...
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Deep South Buddhist accused of rebellion aqcuitted
The juvenile court in Thailand’s restive Deep South dismissed charges against the first Buddhist youth in the region accused of rebelling against the state.According to the Cross Cultural Foundation...
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An Energy Policy for the Centre-Left to Combat Coal
John Draper One of the downsides of authoritarian military dictatorships is that the public has little influence on politically important issues, such as energy policy. No major Thai daily newspaper...
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Authorities and investors allegedly bulldoze seafarer minority
Skirmishes between men reportedly hired by investors and a seafarer minority group in Phuket erupted after a two days standoff while military officers allegedly sided with the investors.According to...
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Real estate Co. abandons migrant workers in Chiang Mai without pay
More than 100 embattled migrant workers employed in construction sites in northern Thailand left unpaid by a real estate company.According Prachatham News, at 9 am on Wednesday, 27 January 2016, about...
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Rights crisis deepens under Thai dictatorship
Human Rights Watch Thailand’s military junta tightened its grip on power and severely repressed fundamental rights in the past year, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2016. Public...
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Military intervenes land dispute between investors and seafarer minority
Military officers have intervened in a land conflict between investors and a seafarer minority community in Phuket after violent skirmishers yesterday.Sataporn Pongpipatwattana, a journalist from Thai...
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Intl rights agency downgrades Thai National Human Rights Commission
An international human rights agency has downgraded Thailand’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) due to failures in addressing human rights issues.The Sub-Committee on Accreditation (SCA) of the...
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Thailand asks Google to bend censorship rules
Khaosod English Thai officials asked Google to make an exception and remove content without a court order, according to leaked details of a meeting this past Friday with top executives from the...
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Life of Man to 8 years for uploading lèse majesté file: Who is he?
Metta Wongwat On 28 December 2015 the Military Court sentenced Tanitsak to eight years imprisonment, reduced to four years in light of his guilty plea. A defendant in the lèse majesté case concerning...
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Escalators of Equality
Harrison George You may not have noticed this, but the escalators on the underground MRT in Bangkok have signs telling you not to walk and to hold onto the handrail. But on the BTS skytrain, they...
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Deep South insurgent group claims responsibility for rocket attack
One of the insurgent groups in Thailand’s Deep South has warned people to stay away from military bases, saying that it has fired rockets into them.On Friday, 29 January 2016, Patani United Liberation...
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Isan civil group rebukes junta over who to blame for water mismanagement
A civil society group in Isan, Thailand’s northeast, say that the military government should not only blame politicians on water mismanagement, but civil servants and other public agencies as well.On...
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[Burma] Censorship remains a big challenge for incoming parliament
Kyaw Ye Lynn Journalists gather in front of a TV screen to watch the opening session of Myanmar’s new parliament. This TV screen is their only source of what goes on in the main parliament chamber....
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Libel unclear in ‘illegal’ video mocking Thai junta leader
The surprising thing about a four-minute music video mocking junta leader Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha, for which a little-known district official now faces up to five years in prison, is that it doesn’t...
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Call for penalties for opposing draft constitution
The Election Commission of Thailand has proposed penalties for people who distort facts about the draft constitution while the Royal Thai Army says it will help promote a correct understanding....
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Life in exile of Pavin Chachavalpongpun
Pavin Chachavalpongpun has been known as a fierce critic of the Thai Army since before Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha staged the coup d’état in May 2014. After the coup, he continued to criticize the junta...
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Human rights lawyer accused of defying police order
Police have summoned a lawyer for the well-known anti-junta 14 youth activists imprisoned in June and July 2015, accusing her of disobeying the orders of police officers. According to Thai Lawyers for...
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Military prosecutors dismiss lèse majesté charges against 3 suspects
For the first time since the 2014 coup d’état, military prosecutors have dismissed lèse majesté charges against three suspects accused of defaming the Thai monarchy on Facebook.Sasinan Thamnitinan, a...
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