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Thailand's prisons need urgent reforms
International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) Thailand’s ongoing failure to enact comprehensive prison reforms has created conditions for human rights violations to be rife in its prison system,...
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Soldiers detain red shirt near Dhammakaya temple
Soldiers and security officers have detained a member of an anti-establishment red shirt group at a market close to the Dhammakaya temple and told him not to enter the area again or risk imprisonment....
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Media’s efforts to justify junta’s harassment of Dhammakaya
Kornkritch Somjittranukit Over the past three weeks, right-wing media have been demonising Wat Dhammakaya and justifying the junta’s crackdown by linking the sect to the red-shirt movement. An expert...
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Kuala Lumpur boarding school for Patani Malay youth
Adam John I took a taxi from Kuala Lumpur's bustling shopping centre at the Petronas Twin Towers in the heart of the city. It was taking me along one of the busy highways which cuts through the city...
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Govt urged to reassess coal-fired power plant plans
Environmental activists and academics have urged the government to improve its conduct of the Environmental Health Impact Assessment (EHIA) on a controversial coal-fired power plant project in southern...
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Bangkok pushes ahead with city’s facelift
Bangkok is pushing ahead with the demolition of the old community of Pom Mahakan to beautify the city landmark at the cost of local residents.On 6 March 2017, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration...
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Enforced disappearance in Thailand worsening since coup: civil society
A coalition of human rights organisations has condemned the junta’s suspension of a bill aimed at criminalising state enforced torture and disappearance, arguing the legal gap facilitates human rights...
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Red shirt leader gets 2 years for lèse majesté
The Supreme Court has sentenced a comedian turned red-shirt activist and politician to two years’ imprisonment for lèse majesté.On 7 March 2017, at the Criminal Court on Ratchadapisek Rd., Bangkok, the...
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Thailand addicted to junta’s absolute power: poll
According to a recent political survey, most Thai people believe Section 44 of the Interim Charter, which gives the ruling junta absolute power, is crucial to the country’s political reform. A majority...
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Military drops charges against Deep South human rights defenders
The Thai military has dropped criminal defamation charges against three human rights defenders who exposed torture in Thailand’s Deep South.On 7 March 2017, Col Pramote Promin, Deputy Spokesman for...
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The New York Post blocked in Thailand
Without any explanation, Thailand has blocked access to the New York Post. According to Thai Netizen Network (TNN), the website have been blocked since 23 February by the Ministry of Digital Economy...
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Progress on women's rights slow and uneven: UN
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Today we honour the human rights struggle of millions of women who have demanded respect for their rights and the rights of others. The...
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Section 44 to be used for Uber, car-sharing app crackdown
After arresting 18 Uber drivers, the land transportation department has announced that it might ask the junta leader to use absolute power under the Interim Constitution to crackdown on car application...
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Junta proposes political culture bill to solve political ills
Citing political ills, the Thai junta has ironically proposed a so-called political culture bill as a solution to reform the nation’s politics, saying the bill could foster democratic political...
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BBC signal ends as Thai junta refuses contract renewal
The Thai junta has refused to extend a permit for the BBC to run one of its major global transmission stations located in central Thailand.The BBC World Service has stopped broadcasting programmes from...
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Villagers fined for campaigning against junta-written draft constitution
20 villagers have been found guilty for violating the junta’s public gathering ban for supporting a referendum monitoring campaign. But the villagers only pled guilty due to the high costs of fighting...
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Mother sues Thai Army over her son’s death
The mother of a soldier in northeastern Thailand who was beaten to death in a military camp has filed a civil lawsuit against the Royal Thai Army.At the Civil Court on Ratchadapisek Road in Bangkok on...
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7 female activists face charges on International Women’s Day
On International Women’s Day, police officers pressed charges against seven female villagers for opposing a local gold mine. On 8 March 2016, Wang Saphung Police Station’s officers pressed charges...
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Kuala Lumpur boarding school for Patani Malay youth
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Subdistrict official wins dismissal of lawsuit over gold mining
The head of the Subdistrict Administrative Organisation (SAO) of an area battling a gold mine company has won a lawsuit filed against him by a gold mine operator.On 9 March 2017, the Provincial Court...
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