Update on The “NLA Sit-In” Trial of 10 Thai Human Rights Defenders
Activists who have been charged for trespassing the National Legislative Assembly in 2007 and their lawyers wish to invite observers from human rights and media rights organisations and representatives...
View ArticleAhead of the Plot that’s Afoot
Harrison George The scene: an upstairs room in a non-descript house on a side soi in suburban Bangkok. The date: Valentine’s Day 2012. A training session is in process. Trainer: OK, let’s recap what...
View ArticleWebsite editor’s trial resumes, court hears defence witnesses
Reporters Without Borders The trial of Chiranuch Premchaiporn, the editor of the Prachatai news website, resumed before a Bangkok court on 14 February after a long interruption, with testimony being...
View ArticleTHAILAND: Meechai Ruchupan to Testify in First Witness Examination of the...
All press and public are invited to observe the "NLA Sit-in" trial, the case of which stemmed from direct actions by a thousand strong activists in 2007 against the rush to pass repressive laws by the...
View ArticleCriminal Defamation Cases against Frank G Anderson
The following is an update regarding two criminal defamation cases filed against Frank G Anderson by Royal Thai Police based on accusations against him filed by UK national Akbar Khan and Thai police...
View ArticleTHAILAND: Continued impunity for enforced disappearance in Thailand
Asian Legal Resource Centre A written statement submitted to the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status The...
View ArticleMPs and politicians from ASEAN on February 23–25 fact-finding mission to...
ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus Leading ASEAN MPs and members of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus (AIPMC) will be in Thailand on a three-day fact-finding mission from February...
View ArticleThai Civil Society and Human Rights Coalition urged the government to uphold...
Civil Society and Human Rights Coalition of Thailand Civil Society and Human Rights Coalition of Thailand (CHRC), comprised of more than 50 organizations, institutions and groups, is urging the Thai...
View ArticleRice After the Floods: Production Up, Exports Down
Aim Sinpeng The 2011 floods that ravaged one-quarter of Thailand have not, surprisingly, adversely affected overall rice production. That should be good news for the government. Since rice has become...
View ArticleSuit and diplomacy
Frank G Anderson Accusing America’s single-most important ally in Southeast Asia of unwarranted interference in the affairs of the United States may sound a bit strong. And especially so in this age...
View ArticleTul on why he opposes changes to Article 112
Dr Tul Sitthisomwong, leader of royalist multi-coloured group, explained his opposition against proposed amendments to the lese majeste law or Article 112 of the Criminal Code at an event held by the...
View Article“Family Fight” killed another innocent victim
Pipob Udomittipong Another victim of state violence in 2010, Mr. Thanuwat Assawasirimankong, aka “Uncle Kim”, passed away yesterday after almost two years of pains and immovability. He died of the...
View ArticleForget the superpowers, we need to pursue reform
Pravit Rojanaphruk, The Nation They are not shouting "Death to America!" yet, unlike some people in Afghanistan and Iran, but more Thai ultra-royalists have over the past few weeks become rather...
View ArticleAppeals Court denies bail for Amphon
The Appeals Court has rejected Amphon Tangnoppakul’s bail request, saying that it ‘does not believe that the defendant will not flee.’ The public prosecutor has been granted yet another month to...
View ArticleAll Greek to Me
Harrison George The accepted reaction among BBC newsreaders to the Greek sovereign debt crisis seems to be that of exasperated parents faced with a stroppy six-year-old. They are clearly bored to...
View ArticleLaos: Situation of minorities remains dire as Laos goes before the UN...
International Federation for Human Rights Geneva-Paris-Bangkok, 27 February 2012 - Although Laos has become a State party to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial...
View ArticleThe serious human rights situation in Myanmar requires the Human Rights...
Amnesty International Amnesty International’s written statement to the 19th session of the UN Human Rights Council (27 February – 23 March 2012) Over the past year, Myanmar’s human rights situation...
View ArticleActivist sued by monk walks to report to police in Fang, Chiang Mai
Phansak Srithep has finished a long walk from Chiang Mai to Fang District to report to local police following complaints lodged against him by a monk with whom he had a heated dispute on Facebook over...
View ArticleSurachai gets 7.5 years in prison
On 28 Feb, Surachai Danwatthananusorn, leader of the Red Siam group, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for lèse majesté on three counts, but the jail term was commuted by half due to his guilty plea....
View ArticleThai education failures – Part 2: Test scores, standards and accountability
Kaewmala “F” for the explanations of ridiculous O-NET questions This year’s ridiculous O-NET exam questions caused much kerfuffle which had the executives of the National Institute of Educational...
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