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Sign-on petition for royal pardons for lèse majesté prisoners
Pranee Danwatthananusorn is running a campaign to collect signatures in support of her petition to seek royal pardons for lèse majesté convicts including her husband Surachai.On 2 Dec, Pranee...
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A Taste of Honey
Harrison Geopr [Partial transcript of a recent case in the Bangkok Criminal Court]Prosecution: Could you please tell the court your name? Defendant: Namphueng Teenphee. P: And what is your occupation?...
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Thailand: United Nations Working Group declares detention of Thai human...
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Union for Civil Liberty (UCL) Paris-Geneva-Bangkok, December 10, 2012. The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the...
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MWRN submits open letter to Suu Kyi in Yangon requesting urgent help on Thai...
Migrant Worker Rights Network Migrant Worker Rights Network submitted an open letter to Daw Aung Suu Kyi (A-May Suu) in Yangon on 10 Dec requesting her urgent help on Thai mass deportation threats and...
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Lao government expels NGO director
Southeast Asian Press Alliance Bangkok, 11 December - The Lao People's Democratic Republic on Friday expelled an expatriate development worker for criticizing the government in a letter to...
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Letter to Somyot
Sukanya Prueksakasemsuk's letter to her husband Somyot in prison, and the 112 Family Network's invitation to Somyot's court appearance on 19 Dec. (see attachements for more details)000Week 78 of...
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AIPMC calls on Thai authorities to protect basic rights of migrant workers...
ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus BANGKOK – The ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus today called on the Thai government to postpone a December 14 deadline for unregistered migrant workers...
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MICT blocks Nitirat page on 1st declaration of the People’s Party
The Ministry of Information and Communications Technology has blocked a page of the Nitirat website which published the first declaration of the People’s Party after the overthrow of the Absolute...
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Kulture with a Capital K
Harrison George Last Monday, besides being Constitution Day in Thailand, was also International Human Rights Day, and there’s irony for you. Despite the double booking by Chana Songkhram police that...
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Toothless Thai Human Rights Commission
Pavin Chachavalpongpun An important agency is rendered toothless by its Quisling chairwomanAmara Pongsapich, the chairperson of Thailand’s National Human Rights Commission must have felt frustrated to...
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THAILAND: A call for procedural review and stop invoking Martial Law to...
Cross Culture Foundation and Muslim Attorney Centre Foundation On 17 December 2012, human rights organizations submitted a letter of petition concerning the invoking of Martial Law to impose DNA...
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Inquest into Amphon’s death
The inquest into the death of 'Uncle SMS' Amphon Tangnoppakul began on 17 December at the Criminal Court on Ratchadaphisek Rd, seven months after his death at the Correctional Hospital, starting with...
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Magsaysay Award Winner Disappears in Laos
Thai civil society groups Today, 61 Thai Civil Society groups send an emergency letter to top officials in Vientiane, Lao PDR to request an emergency investigation on the disappearance of Mr. Sombath...
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Witnesses: Soldiers Opened Fire at Wat Pathum on 19 May 2010
On 13 Dec, South Bangkok Criminal Court held witness hearings in the inquest into the deaths of six people who were killed at Pathum Wanaram Temple near Ratchaprasong intersection after the dispersal...
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Annual Overview : News providers decimated in 2012, 88 journalists and 47...
Reporters Without Borders Deadliest year for journalists since Reporters Without Borders began producing its annual roundup in 199588 journalists killed (+33%)879 journalists arrested1993 journalists...
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Court rules boy Isa was killed by soldiers
On 20 Dec, the Criminal Court delivered its ruling on the inquest into the death of 12-year-old Khunakorn Srisuwan, nicknamed Isa, saying that the boy was killed by a bullet fired by security officers...
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Dying for a cause
Harrison George 21 December 2022Advocates of weapons control are hoping that public revulsion at the nerve gas attack on an elementary school in New England that killed 20 students will lead to a...
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Letter to Somyot, Week 80
Sukanya Prueksakasemsuk Sukanya Prueksakasemsuk's letter to her husband on week 80 of his detention.000Week 80 of the prolonged detention23 December 2012Dear P’Yot,A hectic week passed and I was so...
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Governments 'in denial about crisis'
Pravit Rojanaphruk, The Nation Political solution desperately needed to resolve insurgency, top scholar saysA political solution as well as political leadership is needed to solve the prolonged...
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Former stock broker gets 4 years for posting two webboard comments in 2009
On 25 Dec, the Criminal Court found Katha Pachariyaphong guilty on two counts under the 2007 Computer Crimes Act and sentenced him to 6 years in prison, but reduced the prison term to 4 years due to...
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