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Asian countries urged to abolish death penalty
Kongpob Areerat More than 300 lawyers, NGOs, journalists, state officials, academics, activists, and others from around the globe galvanised efforts to end ‘an eye for an eye’ principle on justice...
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Isan activist groups summoned for collaborating with anti-junta students
The Thai military summoned four leaders of an activist group in Isan, Thailand’s northeast, for joining the blessing ceremony for an anti-junta student activist who staged an activity to commemorate...
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Thai police search ex-palace official’s house
Thai police have searched the house of a former high ranking palace official accused under the lèse majesté law, confiscating 10 million baht’s worth of cash and property. According to the Thai News...
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Lese majeste discussion blocked by junta: FCCT
Khaosod English: Thailand's Foreign Correspondents' Club has cancelled a discussion on the Kingdom’s draconian lese majeste law after police delivered a verbal order from the ruling military junta.The...
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Thailand’s Hitlerism must stop
John Draper HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver from June 1st, 2015, includes a major segment on the use of images of Hitler in Thailand:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wraq6VnXmGoThe use of...
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Thai military summons lecturer for allegedly supporting anti-junta student...
The Thai military summoned a lecturer of a university in Isan, Thailand’s Northeast, to question about his relationship with an anti-junta activist group in the region. On 12 June, the military...
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Embattled student activists meet UN, British Embassy officials
Seven embattled student activists from Isan, Thailand’s Northeast, met UN and the British Embassy staffs to discuss about their legal struggle and human rights situation under the military government....
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Thai military bans meeting on land issues, saying the villagers has no ‘brain’
The Thai military stormed into a meeting in central Thailand, citing the junta’s political gathering ban, while calling meeting’s participatns ‘brainless’.On 13 June, according to the Thai Lawyer for...
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Thai prosecutors request New Zealand to extradite lèse majesté suspect
The Thai prosecutor’s office has indicted and proceeded with the extradition of a lèse majesté suspect in exile.The Office of the Attorney General of Thailand on Tuesday indicted Ekapop L. (aka Tang...
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Isan activists call for measures to protect environment from gas drilling
An environmental protection group in Isan, Thailand’s northeast, has issued a statement to urge state agencies to come up with measures to protect the local environmental from gas drilling...
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No scheme to stay on will ever make Prayuth legitimate
Pravit Rojanaphruk Can the expected referendum on whether to allow the military regime of General Prayut Chan-o-cha to stay for two more years "legitimise" the government?Some say yes, as they argue...
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The Junta and Human Rights Discourse
Pavin Chachavalpongpun Since the coup of May 2014, the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) and the military regime of Prime Minister General Prayuth Chan-o-cha, have arrested more than 100...
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Court tries Isan rubber farmer accused of land encroachment
The court in Isan, Thailand’s Northeast, tried a rubber farmer accused of growing rubber trees in national park’s land plots. According to Chai Thongdeenok, a member of Thai Ban Phuraisit Sakon...
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Red & yellow politicians 'invited' to discuss junta's reforms
Khaosod English: Politicians from Thailand's two rival political camps have been asked by the military junta to attend a forum on its national reform efforts this Friday. Officials say the politicians...
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Srisompob Jitpiromsri on the latest round of Deep South peace talks
Thaweeporn Kummetha The latest round of peace talks has just started in early June in Kuala Lumpur -- quietly. The talks were reportedly initiated and supported by Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, the junta...
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No scheme to stay on will ever make Prayut legitimate
Pravit Rojanaphruk Can the expected referendum on whether to allow the military regime of General Prayut Chan-o-cha to stay for two more years "legitimise" the government? Some say yes, as they argue...
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Testimony from wife of lèse majesté prisoner serving longest Article 112...
Metta Wongwat Tiensutham S. , aka Yai Daengdueat, 58 years old, graduated from a top-tier Thai university with a degree in chemical engineering and most recently worked as a consultant to a number of...
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Thai junta threatens to arrest anti-junta student activists
The Thai junta has threatened to issue arrest warrants against anti-coup student activists who refuse to report to the police. On Thursday, Col Winthai Suwaree, the spokesperson of the junta’s...
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Isan NGO urges state agencies to treat contaminated water
A civil society group in northeastern Thailand urged the relevant authorities to come up with solutions to improve the water quality of a tributary of the Mekong River, saying that incompetent civil...
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Thai Pol chief proposes ‘single internet gateway’ for national security
The head of the Thai police proposed a plan to reduce multiple internet gateways to a single one in order to increase the efficiency of the state’s surveillance system. Pol Gen Somyos Pumpanmuang,...
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