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Lèse majesté leading campaigner physically assaulted
Pipob Udomittipong 29 February 2012: Worajet Pakirat, lecturer in Public Law at Thammasat University and founding member of the Nitirat Group, which demands reform of the repressive lèse majesté law...
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Army chief invited to attend funeral of latest casualty of 2010 crackdown
On 28 Feb, Phayao Akkahad, mother of Kamonkade who was killed at Wat Pathum Wanaram on 19 May 2010, led a group of activists to invite Army chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha to attend the funeral of...
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ASTV-Manager readers’ comments about assault on Worachet
10 most popular comments, as of 9.00pm, 29 Feb: Comment 48: [I] don’t support violence, but…this feels damn good!!! Comment 50: Did they punch according to their rights and freedoms? Comment 14: This...
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Rights Organizations Condemn Assault against Assoc. Prof. Worajet, core...
Assoc. Prof. Worajet Pakirat, lecturer of the Faculty of Law, Thammasat University and a member of the Nitirat Group, was assaulted by two men in the Tha Pra Chan Campus of Thammasat University on the...
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Twins temporarily released after surrendering to police
On 1 March, Suphot and Suphat Silarat, 30, turned themselves in to Chanasongkhram police, admitting that they had assaulted Worachet Pakeerut, a law lecturer and core leader of the Nitirat group, at...
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Testing Times
Harrison George So we’ve all had a smug smirk about the purported link between suppressing sexual urges and playing football advanced by NIETS. NIETS is one of these outfits whose name slowly drifts...
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Internet Freedom in Southeast Asia
Aim Sinpeng Cyber political pundits, bloggers and Facebook activists in Thailand often feel deeply frustrated and annoyed with their lack of liberty to write at will. Yet netizen's frustration with...
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THAILAND: Threats to political freedom intensify with assault on HRD and law...
Asian Human Human Rights Commission On the afternoon of 29 February 2012, Professor Worachet Pakeerut, a law professor at Thammasat University, leader of the Khana Nitirat, and human rights defender...
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FIDH expresses concern about the drafting process of the ASEAN Human Rights...
International Federation for Human Rights Paris-Bangkok, 6 March 2012. The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) will meet in Jakarta this week to continue the drafting of a new...
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Surachai will ask PM to seek royal pardon for political prisoners
On 5 March, Pranee Danwatthananusorn told Prachatai that her husband Surachai was going to petition the government to seek a royal pardon for all political prisoners including those jailed for lèse...
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Still no room for differing points of view
Pravit Rojanaphruk, The Nation Some Thais just hate other Thais who think differently, especially when it comes to the issue of the monarchy. Supot and Supat Silarat, who last week assaulted Worachet...
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Twins get jail terms
On 8 March, Dusit Municipal Court sentenced Suphot and Suphat Silarat to 3 months in prison for assaulting law lecturer Worachet Pakeerut in late February. The court found them guilty of collaborating...
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NHRC Exonerates Law Dean, Condemns KKU
The Isaan Record KHON KAEN – On February 28, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) released a report condemning Khon Kaen University (KKU) for arbitrarily and unjustly dismissing Kittibodi...
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On International Women’s Day, Protect Women Human Rights Defenders
Front Line Defenders Dublin, Ireland [8 March 2012] – On International Women’s Day, Front Line Defenders calls for increased protection and recognition of women human rights defenders around the...
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Recent crackdown on cyber dissidents
On 13 Dec 2011, police raided the homes of two Thai internet users, took them in for interrogation and seized their computers and several other items. They were released at night on the same day....
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THAILAND: Political repression, disappearances and attacks on activists...
Asian Legal Resource Centre An Oral Statement to the 19th Session of the UN Human Rights Council from the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organization in general consultative...
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King Prajadhipok's Institute: executive summary of research on reconciliation
King Prajadhipok's Institute The aim of the present research was to investigate concrete steps to bring about sustainable reconciliation in Thailand in the present context. Research findings are based...
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8 lèse majesté convicts ask PM to seek royal pardon for them
‘Now all of us feel guilty and are very sorry for what we have done wrong. So we have decided not to fight our cases, and have pleaded guilty so that the court would decide on our punishment to end...
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Protest against Bangkok Art and Culture Centre for ‘Freedom Suspended’
On 18 March, a group of activists held a protest at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre against its decision not to permit a cultural event and academic forum entitled ‘Freedom Suspended’ to take place...
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First, learn how the other side thinks
Pravit Rojanaphruk, The Nation National reconciliation is an admirable goal but it would be a misplaced goal if Thai society has yet to learn how to co-exist and compete with those who think...
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