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JPF calls on Thai Government to prevent enforced disappearances and ensure...
Justice for Peace Foundation On 28 May, the Justice for Peace Foundation (JPF) called on the Thai Government to ratify and comply with the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons...
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The Power of Comparing the King to “Father” of the People
Pravit Rojanaphruk “Today, every child would like to tell father that ‘children love and would like to follow father’s footsteps for ever’. Long Live Your Majesty.” Praew Magazine, issue 775, November...
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Court to read verdict in landmark freedom of expression case of Chiranuch...
Asian Human Rights Commission On 30 May 2012, at 10 am in the Criminal Court in Bangkok, the verdict in the case of Chiranuch Premchaiporn, charged with ten counts of allegedly violating the 2007...
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Chiranuch gets suspended jail term
On 30 May, the Criminal Court found Prachatai Director Chiranuch Premchaiporn guilty of allowing readers’ comments deemed offensive to the monarchy to remain on the Prachatai webboard for too long. The...
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Thailand: Internet Trial a Major Setback for Free Speech
Human Rights Watch Web Manager Convicted for Failing to Remove Lese Majeste Content (New York, May 30, 2012) – The conviction of a prominent website manager on computer crimes charges highlights the...
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THAILAND: Verdict in landmark freedom of expression case
Asian Human Rights Commission On 30 May 2012, the Criminal Court read its verdict in the case in Black Case No. 1667/2553, in which Chiranuch Premchaiporn was charged with ten alleged violations of...
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The Grey Area of Freedom of Expression in Thailand
Pravit Rojanaphruk Being a committed advocate for freedom of expression, I have recently had the honour of being accused on Twitter by one foreign supporter of the red-shirt movement, by the name of...
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What kind of "liberal" defends the intimidation of young women?
Andrew Spooner This article is, of course, in reply to Pravit’s article directed at my Twitter responses to his stated position – that he privileges the rights of large powerful media companies to...
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Implied Consent, or We Know What You’re Thinking
Harrison George The Computer-Related Crime Act, Section 15: “Any service provider intentionally supports or consents to commit the offence under Section 14 in the computer system under his control,...
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Call for observers in the case of Land Rights and Human Rights Defenders in...
Asian Human Rights Commission On 6 June 2012, at 9 am in the Provincial Court in Lamphun Province, the Supreme Court verdict in a case involving three land rights activist in northern Thailand will be...
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Prominent activists and farmer leaders facing imprisonment for their role in...
An open letter to Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra from Thai and international non-government organisations and individuals expressing concerns over the prosecutions against three members of the...
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Harsh Internet Laws Silence Thai Netizens
Marwaan Macan-Markar, IPS BANGKOK, Jun 5, 2012 (IPS) - When Thai police raided the headquarters of the popular alternative news portal ‘Prachatai’ and arrested its executive director, Chiranuch...
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Father Mun vs the USA
Pravit Rojanaphruk, The Nation Gwangju, South Korea June 4, 2012 1:00 am A priest in his 80s who wants the American military out of South Korea is honoured with a human-rights prize One of South...
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Thailand: How the meaning of ‘and’ starts a constitutional crisis – Updated
Kaewmala, Asian Correspondent Thailand may be heading to its first major constitutional crisis in history. Thai Constitution Court has performed an interesting exercise in semantics with one of the...
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Thailand’s lese majeste prisoners – “Amnesty & Human Rights Watch are...
Andrew Spooner A little background to this piece. The main research and interviews were completed earlier this year and so may seem a little dated now. However, I interviewed 9 lese majeste prisoners...
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Courting Disaster
Harrison George The Constitutional Court enraged football fans around the country by telling the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission to rescind its order to TrueVisions to carry...
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THAILAND: Reaffirmed with the Lower Court, Appeals Court refusing to revoke...
Cross Culture Foundation At 09.00 am, on 8 June 12, an order of the Appeals Court was read concerning a motion brought by the relatives of 34 slain victims of the Tak Bai incident, who filed to...
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Joint Statement on current political situation and peace processes by...
On June 4 and 5, 2012, about 80 people from various community-based organizations, including women’s, youth, environment, community development, media, health, education, literature and culture groups,...
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Tanthawut Mourns Ah Kong: An Account of Injustice
Tyrell Haberkorn On 8 June 2012, one month after Ah Kong (Amphon Tangnoppakul) was found dead in prison custody, Tanthawut Taweewarodomkul, or “Num,” wrote an account of his life and death. Tanthawut,...
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Beware the perils of selective history
Pravit Rojanaphruk, The Nation The past is always subject to editing, omission, co-optation and selective memorisation. This was manifested recently when the red shirts flocked to listen to their...
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