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Measures to protect Buddhism emerge as charter draft is unveiled
Pressured by Buddhist groups to enshrine Buddhism as a national religion, the constitution drafters have met the demands halfway by providing mechanisms in the new draft constitution to protect...
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Thailand: Sedition Charge for Red Bowl Photo
Human Rights Watch (New York) – Sedition charges for a Facebook photo expressing symbolic support for Thailand’s political opposition shows the military junta’s utter disregard for peaceful dissent,...
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Military detains vocal fisherman
Thai military detained fishermen in eastern Thailand who earlier launched a complaint about an eviction done by the military to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). Rattanamanee Ponkla,...
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Junta bans journalist from attending press freedom day overseas
The Thai junta has prohibited a well-known anti-junta journalist of Khaosod English News from attending a conference on World Press Freedom Day in Finland. Pravit Rojanaphruk, 48, a well-known...
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Court dismisses charges against anti-mine villagers
Loei Provincial Court has dismissed a civil lawsuit filed by a gold mining company against key leaders of an anti-mine group. The Provincial Court of the northeastern province of Loei on Wednesday, 30...
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Journalists summoned into military barrack over red bowl news
Thai military summoned journalists in the northern province of Chiang Mai for a discussion over reporting news about a red bowl inscribed with Thai new year greetings from former Prime Ministers...
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Junta grants police powers to military
Khaosod English Soldiers last night were granted sweeping authority to conduct warrantless searches of homes, seize assets and detain civilians without charge.On the order of junta chief Prayuth...
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Deputy junta head intimidates Bangkok Post journalist
The defence minister threatened to send a journalist from the Bangkok Post to an attitude adjustment session.Voice TV on Thursday morning, 31 March 2016, reported that Gen Prawit Wongsuwan, Defence...
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Assembly Act hurts labour rights movement
The ambiguity and legal loopholes of the Public Assembly Act make it difficult for the labour movement to hold assemblies. Labour unionists are calling for the authorities to come up with a clear...
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Junta threatens Pheu Thai for denouncing the draft charter
In an attempt to censor voices against the draft constitution, the junta threatened Pheu Thai Party after the party issued a statement, denouncing that the draft is undemocratic. On Wednesday, 30...
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Activists targeted in junta’s crackdown on mafia
The Thai military summoned a key leader of a group campaigning against a waste-fired power plant for a discussion, saying that he is on the list of ‘influential figures’.Thai Lawyers for Human Rights...
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Identity Crisis
Harrison George (In a luxury condo in Nakhon Si Thammarat.)‘Geraldine darling, who’s Geralgine?’‘Mmm?’‘This web page lists the details of all the foreigners living in the south of Thailand and it says...
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Police confiscates red bowl from Yingluck’s supporter
The police on Friday 1 April 2016 confiscated a red bowl from a supporter of former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. The woman came to give Yingluck moral support when the former Prime Minister...
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Military intimidate community rights activist in Isaan
The military have visited the home of a community rights activist in the northeastern province of Sakon Nakhon after she campaigned for the right of rubber farmers whose rubber trees were cut down by...
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Political dissidents might be sent to restive Deep South: Thai Army chief
The chief of the Royal Thai Army says that a new standardised version of the so-called attitude adjustment sessions is completed, implying that political dissidents could be sent to the restive Deep...
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Military confiscate red bowls from Pheu Thai offices
Military and police officers have searched the offices of Pheu Thai party politicians in northern Thailand and confiscated red bowls inscribed with Thai new year greetings from former Prime Minister...
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Thailand: More restrictions on horizon as repressive “virtual” martial law...
Amnesty International On the first anniversary of the lifting of martial law in Thailand, and as officials announced they will hold political re-education courses in army camps for government critics,...
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Seminar on draft charter aborted at military’s order
Thai military prohibited a seminar on the controversial draft constitution in northern province of Chiang Mai as the public referendum on the draft is drawing near. Matichon Online reported on...
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The (exceptional) long struggle for justice in the (exceptional) military courts
Thailand’s military courts have handled more than 1,400 cases involving more than 1,600 civilian defendants. The most pressing problem has been the overuse of pre-trial detention against those accused...
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Thai journalist’s ban from joining UNESCOs Press Freedom Day conference in...
PEN International Finnish organizations promoting freedom of expression are disappointed in Thailand’s government’s decision to ban journalist Pravit Rojanaphruk from travelling to Finland....
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