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Military Court denies bail for lèse majesté junta critics for the fourth time
A Military Court has rejected a fourth application for bail for two junta critics accused of lѐse majesté, citing the seriousness of the charge and flight risk, despite submissions of one million baht...
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Police ask organiser of seminar on draft charter whether he has a brain
A police officer has intimidated a student activist from Ramkhamhaeng University over an academic seminar on the junta-sponsored draft constitution, asking the student whether he has a brain or...
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Meet an “Influential Figure”: Second Anniversary of the Coup and the NCPO’s...
Bhandtavis Depchand “The NCPO’s motto is ‘Returning Happiness to the People’, but I receive only bitterness. I don’t know where my happiness is,” said a community leader arbitrarily detained because...
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Deputy junta head defends using army cadets for promoting charter referendum
After prohibiting anti-establishment red shirts from opening the charter referendum watch centers, Gen Prawit Wongsuwan, Deputy junta head and Defence Minister, defends using army cadets to promote...
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Inmates barred from reading political news after coup: well-known...
After being imprisoned for five years, Somyot Prueksakasemsuk, a long-time labour activist turned lèse-majesté suspect, urged the authorities to improve treatments for inmates, saying prisoner rights...
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Torture and Thainess: Losing fourth generation war in Deep South
John Draper On June 13, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights welcomed Thailand’s decision to enact the Prevention and Suppression of Torture Act. However, the Internal Security Operations Command...
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Military forces closure of red-shirt charter referendum watch centers across...
A key leader of the anti-establishment red shirt reported that the military ordered the red shirts referendum watch centers to be closed in many provinces. Meanwhile, the red shirt invited the UN for...
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Peace Process or Security Process?
Hara Shintaro Muslims all over the world are observing their religious duty of fasting during the holy month, Ramadan. Hostility being prohibited during this month, many people have the naive hope...
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Junta leader retracts earlier statement, prohibits referendum watch centres
Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, the junta leader and Prime Minister, has retracted his earlier statement allowing the anti-establishment red shirts’ referendum watch centres, and declared that opening such...
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Royalists gather for supporting lѐse majesté law
A network of vocational school alumni and other royalists urge people to protect the monarchy, pressing the government to prosecute people who insulted it.At 12 noon on Sunday, 19 June 2016, a network...
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Auditor-General revives probe on bogus bomb detectors
Khaosod English The Office of Auditor-General said he wanted to give it another try in the effort to hold the authorities accountable for wasting millions of baht on bogus bomb detectors sold by a...
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Lèse majesté suspect with mental illness vows to fight his case
Despite the risk of several years in jail, a northern ethnic minority man with mental illness charged under the lèse majesté law has pleaded innocent and vowed to fight the case in the Military...
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At least 10 accused of violating junta’s order over referendum watch centres
Police have summoned at least ten people in the central province of Ratchaburi for allegedly violating the junta’s ban on political assemblies after they gathered for a meal at the red shirts’...
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Thailand: Withdraw charges against human rights defenders
Amnesty International The Thai authorities must reverse their decision to charge three prominent human rights defenders with criminal defamation and computer crimes for documenting and publishing...
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Red shirts report junta’s intimidation on draft charter critics to UN
Red shirt key leaders has filed a petition to the UN after the junta shut down their referendum monitoring centers in various provinces across the country, adding that the red shirts will invite the EU...
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Amnesty International issues Urgent Action appeal for 3 Thai human rights...
Amnesty International has today issued a worldwide Urgent Action appeal for Somchai Homla-or, Pornpen Khongkachonkiet, and Anchana Heemmina, who have been charged by the Thai military with criminal...
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Freedom of expressions crucial for ‘just’ charter referendum: academics
Academics and human rights advocates have demanded the authorities to amend a controversial act barring people to freely criticise the junta-sponsored draft constitution, saying that opinions from all...
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Authorities want the best for activist and protesters
Austin Silvan As a Canadian Masters student who is researching development practices in Thailand, and works at Prachatai, I often hear and read about conflicts between authorities and activists. After...
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Aung San Suu Kyi and the Generals
Eva Kusuma Sundari Having spent over 15 years under house arrest imposed by the military junta that ruled Myanmar until 2011, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi knows a thing or two about...
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Junta accuses red shirt leaders of violating ban on political gatherings
A prominent legal officer of the junta’s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) has accused leaders of the anti-establishment red shirts of violating the junta’s ban on political gatherings by...
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