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Life after eviction
Eight months after the implementation of the Thai government’s Master Plan to reforest the country, villagers in Isaan bear the burden of a flawed policy at the cost of their livelihood and...
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Thailand: Unprecedented number of lèse-majesté detentions call for urgent...
International Federation for Human Rights Paris, Bangkok, 20 May 2015: In the first 12 months under the rule of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), Thailand experienced an unprecedented...
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Thai authorities to reclaim close to a million rai of rubber plantation...
The Thai authorities revealed a plan to reclaim more than half a million Rai of rubber plantations allegedly grown in protected areas to serve the Thai junta’s forest protection policy. According to...
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ASEAN Parliamentarians welcome temporary shelter for boat people, but stress...
ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) JAKARTA, 21 May 2015 – ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights today welcomed the decision by Indonesia and Malaysia to provide temporary shelter to...
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364 days after the coup: Report on the situation on freedom of expression of...
iLaw On 22 May 2014, the military clique in the name of “National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO)” seized power from the Yingluck Shinawatra government citing as its pretext the incessant violence...
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Isan activists condemn Thai junta's petroleum policy
Thailand’s northeastern activists held a symbolic activity to condemn junta’s plan to grant petroleum concessions in the region to business interests while pointing out that the Thai junta’s promise to...
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Thailand: Deepening repression one year after coup
Human Rights Watch (New York, May 22, 2015) – One year after seizing power, Thailand’s military junta has used dictatorial power to systematically repress human rights throughout the country, Human...
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Four villagers arrested for allegedly clearing land plots in protected areas
Thailand's park officers arrested four villagers allegedly clearing plots of land in a protected area in northeastern Thailand.According to Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR), eight officers from the...
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Life for the Thai Exiles: Aum Neko in France
Thaweeporn Kummetha Since the coup on 22 May 2014, about a hundred pro-democracy activists have fled the country. Most were involved in the red-shirt movement. Most decided to flee after they were...
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Parliamentarians condemn rights violations on one-year anniversary of Thai coup
ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) JAKARTA, 22 May 2015 – In the year since the Thai military staged a coup to overthrow the elected government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra,...
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Interview: UNHCR on the Rohingya Exodus
Thaweeporn Kummetha and Pinpaka Ngamsom The boat people from the border between Myanmar and Bangladesh have become a hot potato among the countries of Southeast Asia. Malaysia and Indonesia say they...
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Thai authorities detain anti-junta student activists in Northeast
Thai military officers detained students activist in Isan, Thailand’s Northeast, for holding an anti-junta political activity in the first anniversary of 2014 coup d’état. At 1:27pm on Friday, police...
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The Rohingya - “A group to be eliminated”
Mary Lawlor The world is aghast at the fact that up to 8000 members of the Rohingya people of Myanmar have ended up adrift in leaky overcrowded boats having to fight for food and being forced to drink...
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Thai military arrests embattled activists on 1st 2014 coup anniversary
Thai military officers arrested anti-junta activists on their way to file a criminal charge against the Thai junta leader for staging coup d’état against the 2007 constitution during the first 2014...
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Update: About 20 activists detained for planning to commemorate the coup
Update 8.30pm: Songtham Kaewpanpruk, a pro-democracy activist, was assaulted at the BACC and now hospitalized at Hua Chiew Hospital. He was punched at the face and kicked at his chest. Update 7.45pm:...
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AI: Arrests on coup anniversary are a stark reminder of ongoing repression
Amnesty International AMNESTY INTERNATIONALPRESS RELEASE 22 May 2015 The arbitrary arrests of students and anti-coup activists in at least three separate incidents today in Thailand’s capital Bangkok...
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Cease the exercise of arbitrary power Immediately and unconditionally release...
Thai Lawyers for Human Rights For release on 22 May 2015 Today many students groups gathered to express their political views and opposition to the coup. This led to the detention of a large number of...
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Public Statement by TLHR On the first anniversary of the coup in Thailand
Thai Lawyers for Human Rights The National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) has unlawfully seized ruling power from the people on 22 May 2015. 112 decrees have been issued by the NCPO in the past...
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Memo of a student “before a 10 hour detention on 22 May 2015”
Netiwit Choltiphatphaisal Netiwit Choltiphatphaisal, a student who was among those detained on the first anniversary of the 2014 Coup commemoration, wrote a memo on what happened before he and his...
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Inverted Future
Harrison George International pressure is building on Bangladesh and Myanmar to take urgent measures to save boatloads of stranded asylum seekers in danger of death by drowning or starvation in the...
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