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Well-known red shirt singer gets extra years in prison for lèse majesté
The Military Court has given a well-known anti-establishment red-shirt country singer an extra three years and four months’ imprisonment for lèse majesté to add to an earlier sentence of seven years...
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Court frees Prachatai journalist, democracy activists
A Provincial Court has freed a Prachatai journalist and pro-democracy activists arrested over campaign leaflets for the draft charter referendum. The Provincial Court of Ratchaburi Province on...
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If referendum fails, I will draft constitution myself: Thai junta head
Despite his lack of legal knowledge, the junta leader has said that he will draft another constitution himself if the draft charter is rejected in the August referendum, adding that there is nothing he...
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Thai junta should drop charges against website reporter
Reporters Without Borders Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Thai authorities to withdraw all charges against Taweesak Kerdpoka, a reporter for the independent news website Prachatai, who...
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I cannot visit my cellmates as we have different surname: junta critic
Harit Mahaton If you think being a political prisoner in Thailand is already a nightmare, being an ordinary prisoner can be worse. A junta critic, accused of lèse majesté, has shared an experience...
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Indigenous sea nomads threatened with guns over disputed land
A group of men threatened indigenous sea nomads in southern Thailand with guns in an attempt to bulldoze them out of a disputed land.A group of unidentified men on Sunday night, 10 July 2016,...
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Plainclothes authorities search Prachatai office
After a Prachatai journalist was released on bail yesterday, soldiers and police officers in plainclothes came to the Prachatai office with a search warrant, asking the Director about Prachatai’s...
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Soldiers, police intimidate staff of Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR)
Soldiers and police officers in Chiang Mai intimidated a staff of Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR), asking whether he was distributing booklets against the junta-sponsored draft constitution or...
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No, I won't draft charter myself: junta head reclaims earlier statement
The junta head has reclaimed his earlier statement that he will draft another constitution himself if the August referendum fails, saying that it was just a slip of the tongue. He also blamed media for...
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Understanding Thailand’s Deep South conflict through the struggle to preserve...
Thaweeporn Kummetha Thailand’s assimilation policy in the past 80 years on the Muslim Malay in Thailand’s three southern border provinces, known as Patani, has been repeatedly cited as one of the main...
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Soldiers guard authorities to visit controversial power plant project in Deep...
Fully armed soldiers guarded state electricity executives during their visit to a controversial coal-fired power plant project in Thailand’s restive Deep South amid opposition from the local...
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Authorities can shut down media without accountability under new junta order
As the referendum on the junta-sponsored draft charter draws near, the Thai junta leader has given power to a national media regulator to close down media critical of the regime without any...
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Bitter Sweet Road: Brazil Challenges Thai Sugar Industry
Pattarapong Pongsawasdi Brazil’s long term policy on Proalcohol (sugarcane-based ethanol fuel programme) has provided a platform for Brazil to develop its sugar industry and subsequently dominate the...
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19 red shirts in Isaan summoned for joining referendum watch campaign
Almost 20 people in northeastern Thailand have been summoned after they participated in a red-shirt referendum watch campaign a month earlier.On Thursday, 14 July 2016, security officers including...
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Who Lands in Prison?
Harit Mahaton Note: Harit Mahaton, a fiction and fantasy writer and ramen shop owner from Khon Kaen, was arrested and placed in military detention on 27 April 2016 for violating Article 116 of the...
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Leaflets criticising draft charter can’t be distributed: Election Commissioner
After a stand-off with anti-junta activists over leaflets criticising the junta-sponsored draft charter, the Thai authorities say that the leaflets cannot be distributed as they distort facts about the...
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Police refuse to prosecute anti-junta activist’s mother for lèse majesté
Thai police have refused to press lèse majesté charges against the mother of an embattled anti-junta activist. Pol Lt Col Sanpetch Noothong, police investigator of the 3rd Division of the Technology...
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Will the Lower Sesan 2 Dam Be a Food-Security Catastrophe?
Mekong Watch Unknown to many Cambodians, severe damage that may affect the whole country is currently occurring. This is being caused by just one dam, the Lower Sesan 2.According to one survey, the...
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Two fake military officers arrested for lèse majesté
Thai police have arrested two suspects accused of lèse majesté for making false claims about the Thai monarchy for financial benefit.Pol Maj Gen Thitirat Nongharnpitak, Commander of the Central...
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Comparing Thailand with Turkey not ‘creative’: Thai junta
As news of the foiled coup d’état in Turkey triggered new waves of criticism against the Thai junta, the Thai military regime said that comparing Thailand with Turkey is not ‘creative’ because Thailand...
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