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'Unblemished' - Thais react to return of royal consort with wordplay
Submitted on Fri, 4 Sep 2020 - 03:11 PMPrachataiCaption: King Vajiralongkorn and Thai Royal Consort Sineenat Wongvajirapakdi.Source: Royal PalaceKing Vajiralongkorn has deemed Thai Royal Consort...
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Thais join Milk Tea Alliance in Mulan boycott
Submitted on Fri, 4 Sep 2020 - 10:53 PMPrachataiCaption: Thai student activist Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal and his fellow activists made an appearance at a movie theatre. with signs read ‘#BanMulan’ and...
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Cartoon by Stephff: Free Mice
Submitted on Mon, 7 Sep 2020 - 10:19 AMCartoon by Stephff: Free MiceStephff is about to have a cartoon exhibition on 11 September on the 3-finger anti Junta movement at the the Foreign Correspondents'...
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Bad Students teach Minister education reform
Submitted on Tue, 8 Sep 2020 - 03:34 PMThidatep Piboon, Yiamyut Sutthichaya, Thammachart Kri-aksornCaption: Suphitcha, a student from Chiang Mai, said that more young generation people gathered here...
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Student’s family threatened over posting news of Royal Consort
Submitted on Tue, 8 Sep 2020 - 07:30 PMPrachataiA man claiming to be a police officer visited the home of Chettha Klindee, a Mahasarakham University (MSU) student activist, without showing any identity...
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Good adults join protest of Bad Students
Submitted on Tue, 8 Sep 2020 - 08:54 PMThidatep Piboon, Yiamyut Sutthichaya, Thammachart Kri-aksornAs adults are asked to behave according to the ‘10 duties of adults’, grandparents, parents and public...
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Protest leaders released after five days in prison
Submitted on Tue, 8 Sep 2020 - 10:19 PMPrachataiProtest leaders Anon Nampa and Panupong Jadnok have been released from the Bangkok Remand Prison, where they have been detained for five days after the...
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People with disabilities call for constitutional amendments to be inclusive
Submitted on Wed, 9 Sep 2020 - 07:48 PMA symbolic campaign by the Alliance for Inclusive Society Movement (Allism) on 6 September 2020 called for any constitutional amendment to also benefit people...
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Nong Bua Lamphu community rights group reclaims former mining zone
Submitted on Wed, 9 Sep 2020 - 11:38 PMProtection InternationalOn 4 September, the women and men human rights defenders (W/HRDs) of the Khao Lao Yai-Pha Jun Dai Forest Conservation Group have achieved...
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AI calls for urgent action against prosecution of Thai activists
Submitted on Thu, 10 Sep 2020 - 12:13 AMAmnesty InternationalAmnesty International (AI) has issued a call for an urgent action against prosecution of Thai political activists, inviting supporters to...
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Anti-coup instructions spread as speculation runs riot
Submitted on Thu, 10 Sep 2020 - 04:33 PMThammachart Kri-aksornMonday 7 September was supposed to be a peaceful holiday, but a Thai translation of Gene Sharp’s book The Anti-Coup suddenly spread all...
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High school student summoned for Ratchaburi protest
Submitted on Thu, 10 Sep 2020 - 11:34 PMPrachataiA high school student has been summoned by the police for participating in an anti-government protest in Ratchaburi on 1 August and accused of violating...
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11th grader summoned by teacher, asked not to give protest speeches
Submitted on Fri, 11 Sep 2020 - 08:26 PMPrachataiThe Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) has reported that a 16-year-old student in Bangkok was summoned by a teacher after making a speech at the...
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Mother, teacher, MP call for change as student dies after punishment
Submitted on Mon, 14 Sep 2020 - 11:33 AMBamaejuri Sohkhlet, Thidatep Piboon, Yiamyut SutthichayaAbuse in the Thai education system has resurfaced with the death of a student from hypertrophic...
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UN experts concerned at slow pace of investigation into Wanchalearm’s...
Submitted on Tue, 15 Sep 2020 - 11:14 AMPrachataiThe UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances submitted a second letter to the Cambodian government over lack of progress in the...
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Sissy That Mob: LGBT youths front and centre in Thailand’s democracy movement
Submitted on Tue, 15 Sep 2020 - 03:03 PMPaisarn LikhitpreechakulOriginally published on Asia.gay“Raptor” (in drag) and fellow protestors flash the three-finger salutes at the end of the Aug 16 rally....
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Cambodia: CIVICUS calls on government to release activists after wave of arrests
Submitted on Wed, 16 Sep 2020 - 02:25 PMCIVICUSGlobal civil society alliance CIVICUS is extremely concerned by an ongoing crackdown on activists in Cambodia over the last month. A chilling wave of...
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MPs call for end to harassment of opposition lawmakers
Submitted on Wed, 16 Sep 2020 - 03:07 PMASEAN Parliamentarians for Human RightsOn International Day of Democracy, Southeast Asian lawmakers called on governments in the region to end all forms of...
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Army chief, Correction Dept Director-General to serve the King after retirement
Submitted on Thu, 17 Sep 2020 - 01:50 PMPrachataiThe King has promoted Gen Apirat Kongsompong, the Royal Thai Army (RTA) Commander and Pol Col Naras Savestanan, Director-General of the Corrections...
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Appeal court sentences Lampang villager to prison for encroaching on forest land
Submitted on Thu, 17 Sep 2020 - 02:03 PMPrachataiThe Appeal Court has sentenced a villager in Lampang to 1 year in prison and a fine of 400,000 baht for encroaching on national park land, despite...
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