As Theresa May welcomes the Thai Prime Minister to Number 10 today, does she care about democracy and human rights? Or are business deals the only real priority?
Thailand’s Prime Minister Gen. Prayut Chan-ocha is meeting UK Prime Minister Teresa May in London this afternoon (June 20), and is (...)
Bangkok Post editor removed after refusing to tone down junta criticisms
The Bangkok Post confirmed on Monday that it had removed its news editor Umesh Pandey after he refused to alter his critical coverage of the military government, given that the newspaper plans to invite the junta head to (...)
BANGKOK — After years embodying the excesses of the lese majeste law, Somyot Prueksakasemsuk was released from prison shortly after dawn Monday from the Bangkok Remand Prison.
Emerging at 6am in a light blue polo shirt, Somyot smiled and appeared to be in good spirits as a small group of (...)
In the 10 years of the 2008 Internal Security Act, an important legacy of the 2006 coup d’état, Prachatai’s Kritsada Subpawanthanakun talked with political scientist Puangthong Pawakapan who argues that ISOC has changed its status to a permanent agency which continues to build the legitimacy of (...)
Scholars at Risk (SAR) is concerned about recent human rights violations in Thailand that threaten academic freedom and the higher education sector more generally, including the prosecutions of Professors Anusorn Unno and Charnvit Kasetsiri in apparent connection with their peaceful exercise of (...)
Apart from the problem of interpreting the legal meaning of the term ‘defame’ in Article 112, where the current standards of the courts use a very broad interpretation, the scope of the royal persons protected by the law has a similarly problematic interpretation, despite the fact that the law (...)
Thailand saw its first lèse majesté case under King Rama X, only two days after the king’s accession. Experts argue that this case is different from cases that occurred under King Rama IX.
Jatuphat Boonpattaraksa, also known as Pai, was the first individual to be prosecuted for lèse majesté under (...)
150 scholars, scientists, writers, and activists from 60 institutions in 19 countries around the world have denounced the punishment against members of Chulalongkorn University’s Student Council who were removed for challenging the university’s tradition. Statement for supporting Chula students (...)
The Thai Supreme Court’s dismissal of criminal charges against a former prime minister and his deputy for their role in the deadly crackdown on “Red Shirt” protesters in May 2010 is a serious setback for justice in Thailand, Human Rights Watch said today. International human rights law makes clear (...)
The following open letter has been issued and signed by scholars, academics, and civil society members from across the world in support of the five academics and researchers who have been summoned by the military following the International Conference of Thai Studies (ICTS13), and to object to (...)
We the undersigned express our alarm and dismay at the Summons issued by Col Suebsakul Buarawong, deputy commander of the 33rd Military Circle in Chiang Mai, to Dr Chayan Vaddhanaphuti, Pakawadee Veerapatpong, Chaipong Samnieng, Nontawat Machai, and Thiramon Bua-ngam. They are accused of (...)
The defence lawyer of Jatuphat ‘Pai Dao Din’ Boonpattararaksa has revealed that the renowned democracy activist chose to plead guilty because he was being tried in camera, with observers and the media not allowed into the courtroom.
After standing firm behind bars for almost eight months, the (...)
Prosecutor indicts Isaan anti-mine activists
The prosecutor has charged seven anti-mine activists in Isaan with breaking the public assembly law and intimidating public officials.
On 25 July 2017, the prosecutor indicted seven members of the anti-mine activist group Khon Rak Ban Koed (KRBK) (...)
In the last three years of military rule in Thailand, prosecutions for defamation, sedition and computer crimes offences have soared. Global social media platforms are ground zero in this repression.
In the last three years of military rule in Thailand, arrests and prosecutions for defamation, (...)
Declaration of the “The Community of International Academics” 13th International Conference on Thai Studies and Scholars on Thai Studies “Return the Space of Knowledge, Rights, and Civil Liberties to Thai Society”
Since the coup by the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) in 2014, the (...)
New media bill threatens “unlicensed” journalists with imprisonment
Despite opposition from media groups, the junta is proposing a law to punish unlicensed journalists with two years in prison.
On 10 April 2017, Maj Gen Pisit Pao-In, chairman of the media subcommittee of the junta’s National (...)
Chaiyapoom Pasae, a 17-year-old member of the Lahu ethnic minority
“The trigger gave; I felt the smooth underside of the butt; and there, in that noise, sharp and deafening at the same time, is where it all started. I shook off the sweat and the sun. I knew that I had shattered the harmony of (...)
Between 21-24 March 2017, Ratchaburi Provincial Court will hold witness hearings for and against the criminal case of Taweesak Kerdpoka , 25, a Prachatai journalist. Taweesak, along with four student activists, was accused of violating Thailand’s Referendum Act while reporting on villagers (...)
After a decade-long legal battle, the Supreme Court has handed one to two years suspended sentences to 10 civil society workers, including Jon Ungphakorn, Director of iLaw, former Senator and founder of Prachatai, for instigating chaos and trespassing into the parliament compound in 2007.
On (...)
On International Women’s Day, police officers pressed charges against seven female villagers for opposing a local gold mine.
On 8 March 2016, Wang Saphung Police Station’s officers pressed charges against seven villagers for protesting a local gold mine . The seven were accused of threatening (...)
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