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Lese majeste filed against gang members related to ex-princess
A state official filed lese majeste complaint against two men connected with a brother of former royal consort, for claiming about the monarchy to threaten the state authorities not to properly perform...
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Thai military aids petroleum company to secure oil field despite locals’...
The military has helped a petroleum company bypassing proper environmental assessment procedures and NHRC’s orders to halt the petroleum exploration process in the Northeast and threatened the...
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4 Thai anti-coup activists arrested, charged for holding peaceful gathering
The police on Saturday arrested four activists for organizing a peaceful anti-coup activity and charged them for violating junta’s order. The four are Siriwat Seriwawat, student activist from...
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Student group condemns junta for trying student activist in military court
An anti-coup student activist group from Thammasat University has condemned the charge against a student activist, who will be the first student tried in a military court. The police on Saturday...
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Military threatens villagers who oppose exploration of oil field in northeast
Amid tension with villagers, the Thai military continues to help oil company transport equipment into a potential oilfield in the northeast, despite an NHRC order to halt the process.Despite a recent...
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Deconstructing Panitan Watanayagorn: Can Thailand be Isolated from the World?
Pavin Chachavalpongpun Panitan Watanayagorn is currently adviser to General Prawit Wongsuwan, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister.The discourse created by the military as well as the pro-junta...
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The peace of Thailand, which passeth all misunderstanding
Harrison George You see, we need martial law so that we can enjoy the calm and order that has been achieved since the coup. (Well, as long as we ignore the south, but then everybody always ignores...
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Thai junta urged to correct database of stateless people
A group of indigenous people urged the Thai junta to correct Thailand’s database of stateless people which missed out about 38,000 stateless people and that will affect their rights to health care....
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Red-shirt suspect gets bail over forged royal statement
The military court on Tuesday granted bail to a red-shirt suspect accused of posting a forged royal statement after he had been jailed on remand for seven days. On Tuesday, the military court granted...
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Gandhian legacy in the twenty first century
Janjira Sombatpoonsiri Gandhian legacy in the twenty first century(Guest of honour address, the International Seminar on Tradition of Nonviolence: Changing Contexts, 14-15 February 2015, Jaipur,...
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Thai authorities to force free wifi users to register for national security
In a bid to control the communication in Thailand, the Thai junta has approved the plan to force all free wifi and prepaid phone users to register, claiming national security.Takorn Tantasith, the...
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THAILAND: Call for observers of sentencing in freedom of expression case
On Monday, 23 February 2015, at 1 pm in the Criminal Court on Ratchadaphisek Road in Bangkok, the court will read the verdict and sentence Patiwat S.and Pornthip Munkhong. They were formally charged on...
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Old man indicted for lèse majesté for asking questions about constitutional...
The military prosecutor on Thursday indicted a 74-year-old man for lèse majesté, saying he insulted the King by merely asking questions about the constitutional monarchy. The Judge Advocate General’s...
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Human rights lawyer interrogated over Facebook messages deemed anti-junta
Thai police summoned a human rights lawyer accused of organizing a peaceful anti-junta demonstration on Valentine's Day to clarify his Facebook messages deemed seditious to the military regime....
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Junta-appointed lawmakers pass controversial Military Court bill
The junta-appointed National Legislative Assembly (NLA) on Thursday approved almost unanimously a controversial amendment to the Military Court bill. The NLA performed its duty very efficiently by...
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Thai military threatens to detain student activists
Military officers intimidated and threatened to detain two anti-junta student activists while the police visited the dormitory of one of the two. Natchacha Kongudom, an anti-junta student activist...
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Supreme Court accepts Prachatai lawsuit against ICT Ministry
The Supreme Court on Friday affirmed the decision of the Appeal Court to accept Prachatai’s lawsuit against the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT) for unfairly blocking the...
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Digital Economy Bills condemned for ignoring the disabled, marginalised people
The Network of People with Physical Challenges has pointed out that the controversial Digital Economy bills, recently approved by the junta, ignore the technological inequity facing physically...
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Court sentences theater activists to 5 years in jail for lese majeste
The criminal court sentenced two theatre activists to five years in prison for taking part in a political play "The Wolf Bride" deemed lèse majesté, but since the defendants pleaded guilty, the jail...
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Thai authorities briefly detain Karen activist for protesting junta’s forest...
The Thai military detained a northern activist for holding a symbolic political event to condemn the junta’s forest policy in the northern province of Chiang Mai. Meanwhile, three other activists were...
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