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Popcorn gunman gets 37 years, 4 months imprisonment
The Criminal Court sentenced a suspect known as the ‘popcorn gunman’ to 37 years and four months imprisonment for attempted murder and carrying weapons in public during the political violence in...
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Thailand: Rights Lawyers Harassed, Charged
Human Rights Watch Thailand’s government should stop bringing trumped-up criminal charges against human rights lawyers to harass and retaliate against them, Human Rights Watch said today. Thailand’s...
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Foreign correspondents being denied media visas
Khaosod English At least 10 foreign correspondents based in Thailand have been denied media visas during the past two months, said the former president of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of...
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Youth anti-junta activist leader to face additional charges
The Thai police plan to file additional charges against a well-known anti-junta youth activist leader over roles in an anti-coup gathering in February 2015.Sirawit Serithiwat, a anti-junta student...
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Threats against embattled indigenous seafarers continue
Southern seafarer tribes continue to face uncertainty in a standoff with a land developer as an excavator has been deployed to create a fence on the disputed land.At 2: 30 pm on Friday, 4 March 2016,...
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Red shirts detained after campaigning against draft charter
The Thai police detained members of an anti-establishment red shirt group for campaigning against the controversial draft constitution.Police officers in plainclothes and in uniform on Sunday, 6 March...
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Police detain monk leader over Supreme Patriarch row
Thai police stormed into a meeting of Buddhist monks over the Supreme Patriarch row and took two monks out of a temple. Matichon Online reported that 20 police officers at 10: 20 am on Monday, 7...
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Female human rights activist of the Deep South: Anchana Heemmina
Thaweeporn Kummetha A human rights activist from Thailand’s Deep South speaks about her motivation for co-founding a human rights organization, after her own experience of a family member being...
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Human rights defenders honored, still need protection
Fortify Rights Advocate, journalist, human trafficking survivors, and community activists receive prestigious award(Bangkok, March 7, 2016)— Two women and two women-led organizations received a...
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The 2015/2016 Amnesty International Report: Context
John Draper The 2015/2016 Amnesty International Report Thailand analysis is, as you might expect, critical of the military regime. In response, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a press release...
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Thailand prison crowding ‘getting worse’ with growing number of terror detainees
Benars News The number of terrorism suspects in overcrowded prisons in Thailand is growing, affecting the management and rehabilitation of inmates, an official from a government-funded institute told...
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Former Deep South youth activist leader denounces MARA Patani
While the establishment of MARA Patani and its role in the peace talk with the Thai state is positive, the group never addresses about injustice done to Malay Muslims, said former Deep South youth...
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Rhetoric and reality about the Patani Peace Process
Hara Shintaro Three keynote speeches were delivered at the 3rd Peace Media Day and Peace Assembly held on 28 February 2016 at Prince of Songkla University, Pattani Campus, by the three main actors in...
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Police snatch banners of workers gathering on International Women’s Day
Thai police have confiscated banners of textile workers rallying on International Women’s Day and checked their identification cards to see if the workers are Thai.Jittra Cotchadet, a well-known labour...
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Photo exhibition illuminates the darkness of enforced kidnappings
Asaree Thaitrakulpanich Fifteen dead-end cold cases of enforced disappearances in Thailand are brought to light through a new photo exhibition.“This is not a political act” (see larger image)Jirawut...
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Military loses in defamation lawsuit against Lahu activist
Chiang Mai Provincial Court has dismissed charges against a Lahu ethnic minority activist accused of posting a video clip defaming the Thai military.According to Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR),...
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Military court grants bail to man mocking King’s dog
The military court has granted bail to a factory worker accused of of lèse majesté for mocking the King’s dog.After denying bail requests twice, the Military Court of Bangkok on Tuesday, 8 March 2016,...
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Thai junta slashes EIA procedures on state projects
The Thai junta enacted a new order to cut short the process to conduct Environmental Impact Assessment on mega project constructions. On Tuesday, 8 March 2016, the public website of the Royal...
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In Conversation with Nidhi Eoseewong’s “Islamophobia in the Upper North”
Anthony Lovenheim Irwin I was relieved to read Ajan Nidhi Eoseewong’s article in Prachatai English this past Tuesday, March 1st, about the rise of Islamophobia amongst Buddhist groups in northern...
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Anti-junta activist leader faces addtional charge
The Thai police filed additional charges against a well-known anti-junta youth activist leader over his role in an anti-coup gathering in February 2015.Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) reported...
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