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Thai police confirm lese majeste charge against policewoman
The Thai police followed the pressure ordered a check into the lese majeste case against a police woman accused of defaming the monarchy on facebook, after pressure from ultra-royalists who has...
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Interview with junta critic in exile: Yukti Mukdawijitra
Hathairat Phaholtap After the coup d’état on 22 May, a number of anti-establishment Thai political activists and academics immediately fled the country to Europe, the US and Thailand’s neighbouring...
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300 villagers in northern Thailand severely ill allegedly due to mine
Villagers from three provinces in the lower north of Thailand have urged the Thai authorities and a mining company to provide compensation and remedial measures after the authorities found heavy metals...
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Salween dams are fuelling war and must be stopped
Burma Rivers Network Community representatives from Shan, Karenni, Karen and Mon States are handing a petition today to the Myanmar Ministry of Electric Power, and to the Chinese and Thai Embassies in...
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Pledge Action on Rights, Stop ‘Disappearances’ in Laos
Human Rights Watch UN Review Opportunity for Progress, Answers on Sombath Somphone(Geneva, January 19, 2015) – The government of Laos should use the United Nations Human Rights Council review of its...
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Torture and enforced disappearance in Thailand: the attempt during the junta...
Thaweeporn Kummetha Eight years after Thailand signed the UN conventions against torture and enforced disappearance, the Justice Ministry plans to submit a bill against torture and enforced...
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‘Popcorn’ gunman trial postponed
The criminal court postponed the preliminary hearing against a suspect allegedly murdering and carrying arms in public during the confrontation between the red shirts and the anti-election protesters...
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Court to rule on Thai disabilities’ 20-year fight for lifts at all BTS’ exits
The Supreme Administrative Court is scheduled to rule on the case against Bangkok City and Bangkok’s skytrain ‘BTS’ who were accused of not providing transportation equity for physically challenged...
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Red-shirt poet facing 45 years in jail for lèse majesté will fight charges
A red-shirt poet whose lèse majesté case is being tried by a military court has made the extraordinary decision to fight the case despite the dim chances of winning. On Wednesday, the military court...
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Court orders Bangkok’s skytrain to build facility for disabilities
The Supreme Administrative Court on Wednesday ruled that facility for physically challenged people must be built in the Bangkok’s skytrain ‘BTS’ system. The ruling, which overturned the verdict of the...
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Serious Abuse of Thai Migrant Workers in Israel
Human Rights Watch (Jerusalem, January 21, 2015) – Thai agricultural workers in Israel face serious labor rights abuses because Israeli authorities are failing to enforce their own laws, Human Rights...
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Malaysia’s ASEAN Chairmanship 2015: Time for Transformation?
Pavin Chachavalpongpun This year, 2015, Malaysia takes up the chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). It is an important year for ASEAN as its community building will be...
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Enforcing the Disappearance of Enforced Disappearance
Harrison George OK, next item on the agenda, the Torture and Enforced Disappearance Prevention and Suppression Bill, for approval before it goes to the Council of State and the NLA. I don’t know if...
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Anti-coup sent to prison for failing to report to junta
The court sentenced an ex-lese majeste convict to two months and 20 days in prison for failing to report to the junta in June.The anti-coup activist is the first whom the court sentenced to...
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Junta leader enjoys ‘massage of congratulations’ says the Thai gov website
Junta leader enjoyed ‘massage of congratulation’ from leaders of other states the official website of the Royal Thai Government.The official website of the Royal Thai government was spotted to have...
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Thai Government makes right decision about prison labor program
Human Rights Watch (Washington, D.C.) -- The Government of Thailand announced last week that it will scrap a proposed project to recruit prisoners to work on Thai fishing boats. The announcement came...
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Junta leader admits controversial digital economy bills target lese majeste
Junta leader admitted that one of the prime agendas of the controversial digital economy bills is to catch lese majeste suspects and did not deny the report concerning Thai authorities’ implementation...
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Cyber security bill threatens media freedom in Thailand
Committee to Protect Journalists Bangkok, January 20, 2015--The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Thailand's military-appointed legislature to scrap proposed legislation that would allow for...
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Thai authorities test software to intercept https
Thailand’s Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT) is developing and testing software to intercept internet communications which uses a secure protocol in order to better intercept...
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Network of the poor urges junta to fix inequity and forest protection policies
The network of Thai poor people pressed the junta to rethink about its forest protection policies and come up with strategies to reduce prevalent socio-economic inequity in Thai society at the first...
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