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Criminal court accepts defamation charge involving ex-President of Supreme...
The Criminal Court has accepted a criminal defamation charge filed against a law academic for allegedly defaming a former President of the Supreme Administrative Court.The prosecutor at Bangkok’s...
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ASEAN people's forum denounces Thai junta
ASEAN People's Forum (APF) Organizers and participants on the Workshop on “Democracy struggle in Thailand and its impact to ASEAN” denounce the illegal military junta ruling Thailand and call for the...
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Draft constitution neglects minority rights of millions
The Isaan Record In the debt-ridden Northeast, many rice farmers struggle to make ends meet after the government shut off the irrigation systems leaving them without the profits of the second annual...
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Former ASEAN Leader: Non-interference policy must be reviewed
ASEAN Peoples’ Forum 2015 23 April 2015KUALA LUMPUR. Former Malaysian Foreign Minister, Tan Sri Syed Hamid Albar, said ASEAN’s non-interference policy should be reviewed if we are to build a tolerant...
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Draft constitution neglects minority rights of millions
John Draper In the draft constitution, there is no explicit mention of minorities or minority rights, making this constitution the only one in ASEAN to not have a provision for such rights. In...
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Man jailed for two years for selling lèse majesté book
The appeal court last week gave a bookseller two years in jail for selling a banned book on the killing of King Ananda, a former king and older brother of the current King. He had earlier been...
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Thai police say more than 200 lèse majesté cases closed in 6 months
The Thai police said on Friday that they have closed about 50 per cent of more than 400 lèse majesté cases filed with them in the past six months. Also, more than 25,000 websites were closed because of...
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Thai military searches Muslim student dorms in Bangkok
Thai authorities carried out a massive search of student dormitories around Ramkhamhaeng University, an open university in Bangkok with large population of Muslim students from Southern Thailand....
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Military forced cancellation student movie screening
The military ordered Burapha University students to cancel a movie screening, reasoning that some of the movie content threatens national security.Last Thursday, a Facebook page called ‘Bangsaenrama’...
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Thai authorities bar red-shirt TV from going on air
Thai authorities have suspended the broadcasting license of a TV station affiliated with the anti-establishment red shirts for allegedly showing programmes which are threats to national security.Natee...
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ASEAN NGOs and govs' interface raises threats to people-centered ASEAN
ASEAN People's Forum (APF) Rising inequality and poverty, disappearances of human rights defenders, the acceleration of death penalty executions; the dangers of unmitigated free trade agreements;...
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Consumer rights activists raise alarm on MICT’s digital economy bills
A civil society organisation for consumers has urged the Thai authorities not to pass the digital economy bills, which will give the state unprecedented control over communications and the internet,...
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UN Women unveils far-reaching alternative policy agenda to transform...
UN Women BANGKOK, 28 April 2015 - A major report from UN Women, released in seven locations globally, brings together human rights and economic policymaking to call for far-reaching changes to the...
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Thai authorities’ measure to shut down red shirt TV ‘disproportionate’: Thai...
A press association in Thailand pointed out that the Thai authorities’ measure to shut down a TV station affiliated with an anti-establishment red shirt is ‘disproportionate’ and seems partial.Supan...
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Provincial court accepts appeal to find missing Karen activist
Phetchaburi Provincial Court accepted an appeal to hold an emergency trial to find a missing a Karen human rights activist who disappeared in April 2014.The Provincial Court on Tuesday accepted the...
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Pol-la-muang: The making of superior Thais
Khemthong Tonsakulrungruang Thailand’s 2015 Constitution debuted last week, when the Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC) submitted the draft for consideration before the National Reform Council...
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Draft Dodging
Harrison George The draft constitution proposed by the Constitutional Drafting Committee has now been disclosed to all sorts of people, with the exception of the vast majority of the citizenry who...
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Thammasat student organizations urge junta to postpone university privatisation
The student organisations of Thammasat University united forces to demand that the Thai authorities put off the university privatisation bill, saying that more public participation is needed. The...
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Thai military storms into red shirt TV station to shut its program
Thai military abruptedly stormed into a TV station affiliated with an anti-establishment red shirt to shut down a TV program deemed sensitive to national security.According Nitchanan Jamduang whose...
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ASEAN parliamentarians urge concrete actions on Rohingya crisis
ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) JAKARTA, 30 April 2015 — Recent statements by Malaysia’s Foreign Minister recognizing the regional significance of the plight of Rohingya Muslims in...
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