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Thai public TV might face fine over programme on 14 embattled anti-junta...
The Thai Public Broadcasting Service (Thai PBS), a public media outlet supported by the state, might face a 50,000 baht fine from the Thai authorities for broadcasting a programme on the background of...
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Students enter prison to support the 14 embattled anti-junta activists
Young activists entered a cage installed in front of Thammasat University to support the 14 anti-junta activistsThe students activists from the League of Liberal Thammasat for Democracy (LLTD) on...
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US activists support detained Thai students, protest military rule in Thailand
The Isaan Record LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – On Monday morning, employees of the Royal Thai Consulate-General of Los Angeles and nearby pedestrians were greeted by protesters standing in support of the...
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Thai police summons rights activist over seminar allegedly making references...
Thai police summoned a human rights activist for interrogation over an academic seminar involving discussions about the Thai monarchy. On Wednesday, 1 July 2015, Prateep Ungsongtham Hata, a human...
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Plain-clothes military officers visit Prachatai office
Thai military officers in plainclothes have visited Prachatai’s office in Bangkok to ask about Prachatai’s activities.At around 11 am on Thursday, 2 July 2015, three military officers in plain clothes...
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Thai authorities visit father of anti-junta activist
Thai authorities have visited the home of one of the 14 embattled anti-junta activists to ask about his recent activities. On Wednesday, 1 July 2015, a Facebook page of Dao Din Group, a student...
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Thai lawmakers scrap rights of LGBT to legally marry
Thai lawmakers have scrapped an opportunity of marriage equality for all SOGIEs (sexual orientations and gender identifications and expressions) in Thailand in the draft constitution, saying that the...
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Thai PBS stands firm on TV programme about anti-junta activists
After being summoned by the Thai broadcasting authorities, Thai PBS, a public media company supported by the state, clarified that it was only doing its duty in broadcasting a TV programme about the 14...
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13 of 14 embattled anti-junta activists shave their heads to protest separate...
The Thai authorities put 13 of the 14 embattled anti-junta activists in separate prison cells while the activists under detention protested the decision saying that it has political implications.On...
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Thai military intimidate family of imprisoned anti-coup activist
Khaosod English: Pro-democracy activists in Thailand have accused soldiers of intimidating the family of Chonticha Chaengrew, one of fourteen anti-coup dissidents in jail for leading a peaceful...
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Experts suggest loosening state control could save state enterprises
Yiamyut Sutthichaya Experts have urged structural reforms to counter the lack of efficiency of Thai state enterprises, suggesting that a centralised ownership agency of state enterprises with less...
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Supporters rally to visit jailed anti-junta activists
Asaree Thaitrakulpanich Amnesty International and the National Human Rights Commission visited the 14 embattled anti-junta activists at Bangkok prisons on Thursday, while about a hundred people...
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The 14 embattled anti-junta activists vow to struggle on without bail
The 14 anti-junta activists detained stay adamant on their civil disobedience move and refuse to submit bail request to the military court, saying that the court has no jurisdiction on the case....
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Inclusivity crucial to anti-junta movement, says Thammasat lecturer
Taweesak Kerdpoka, Asaree Thaitrakulpanich, and Panida Dumri Shortly after the one-year anniversary of the military coup on 22 May, 14 anti-junta activists were arrested for their peaceful gatherings....
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People write post its to support jailed anti-junta activists
Asaree Thaitrakulpanich and Yiamyut Sutthichaya Crowds gathered in central Bangkok to show support for the 14 embattled anti-junta activists detained amid heavy presence of police and military...
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Dissent is Not a Crime: Call for International Solidarity with Imprisoned...
Fourteen Thai students were arrested on 26 June 2015 and are currently being detained in Bangkok after a series of peaceful protests against the military dictatorship of the National Council for Peace...
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Thai theater actors in exile after coup
Thaweeporn Kummetha Two theater activists have been jailed for insulting the King for their involvement with the Wolf Bride, a student play which parodies the Thai political conflict. At least two...
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Military threatens to force cancellation of LGBT seminar
The military officers in northern Thailand have threatened to force the cancellation of a discussion about LGBT if it touches on political issues. According to Prachatham News, military officers...
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Junta says international organizations don’t understand the Thai political...
International organizations calling for the release of the 14 anti-junta activists do not understand the Thai political context of the arrests, said a junta spokesman.Maj Gen Weerachon Sukontapatipak,...
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Lives of gay inmates in Thai men's prison
Thantawut Taweewarodomkul In one of Thailand’s men’s prison, the homosexuals are categorized as transgenders with breasts, attractive transgenders, older transgender, gay and transexuals. They are...
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