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Few signboards foretell the global issues of our time better than what is addressed at the annual meetings of the Shangri-La Dialogue (SLD) in Singapore. After a pandemic-induced two-year hiatus, the most recent SLD covered the gamut on the main stage, from the United States-China geostrategic (...)
Protestors against the Thai establishment have found a new form of defiance: demanding offenders’ right to bail. The ‘Stand, Stop, Imprison’ campaign has spread far and wide, largely due to its less controversial nature.
The Thai authorities have been using legal instruments to ‘strike back’ (...)
The recent move to expel Amnesty International from Thailand is yet another indicator of the growing influence of the ultra-royalist political faction in Thailand.
Amnesty International, the global human rights advocacy NGO headquartered in London, is under threat in Thailand. On 11 February (...)
One of the key campaigners for a long-delayed bill banning torture and enforced disappearances said this morning people would have to “wait and see” what happens to it in the Senate after it was passed unanimously in the House of Representatives.
Angkhana Neelaphaijit, who rose to prominence as (...)
Arnon and Penguin remain jailed after one of the courts they have cases before, the Bangkok South Criminal Court, denied bail to them, according to the Thai Lawyers for Human Rights.
Supporters of Thailand’s pro-democracy movement raised millions of baht within a few hours last night to help (...)
Nestled in a leafy area of Wat Thong Nopphakun in an unnoticeable neighborhood near Bangkok’s Chao Phraya River, the 1932 People’s Space Library is tough to find – and maybe that’s a good thing.
One day after it opened late last month, five plainclothes police officers raided the place to search (...)
Jakarta — For the first time on Thursday February 3, a Kamisan (Thursday) action has been held in Thailand. The action was held in front of the Indonesian Embassy in Bangkok.
Kamisan activist and Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) member Ahmad Sajali said that the (...)
First it was the COVID-19 pandemic. Now it is the aftermath of Myanmar coup. For the hundreds of thousands of Myanmar migrants trying to find work and make a living in Thailand, the hurdles are sizeable.
For years, millions of Myanmar citizens have sought work abroad due to poverty in the (...)
Thirty police officers this morning raided a publishing house in the Bangkok metropolitan area known for works sharply critical of the status quo.
Fa Diew Kan (“Same Sky”) said the officers arrived at its location in Nonthaburi’s Rattanathibet area at about 10:30am with a search warrant to look (...)
Amnesty International Thailand today cast doubt on the validity of a million signatures that an administration hardliner claimed to have gathered to “expel” it from the kingdom.
The Thai chapter of the human rights group questioned the validity of the signatures announced yesterday by Seksakol (...)
A prominent disability rights activist was in court Monday afternoon to find out if he would be convicted of defamation for calling someone out for parking in a space reserved for the disabled.
Manit Intharapim, 54, was at Bangkok’s Criminal Court to hear the outcome of a case that began almost (...)
Alongside protracted political conflicts offline, Thailand has witnessed information warfare between pro- and anti-establishment forces. This struggle has been asymmetrical in terms of institutional resources and bureaucratic networks. Pro-establishment forces tap into and consolidate the (...)
On 10 August 2020, a student organisation called the United Front of Thammasat and Demonstration (UFTD) held a gathering at Thammasat University’s Rangsit Centre campus, during which it announced a ten-point demand for reform of the Thai monarchy.[[The demands were as follows:
1. Abolish (...)
Since February 2020, there has been a proliferation of mass youth movements in Thailand. Both university and high school students have come out onto the streets to call for change, not only free and fair elections, but also structural changes in the education system, a more democratic (...)
At least 17 people including protest leaders have received alerts about devices possibly being compromised
Thai activists who have called for reform of the monarchy are among at least 17 people in Thailand who say they have been warned by Apple that they have been targeted by “state-sponsored” (...)
The protests in Thailand which started in early 2020 are of great significance. On the one hand, they mark students’ return to the political arena after “disappearing” for more than four decades. On the other hand, their return differs from the well-known “student movements” of the mid-1970s. While (...)
• Tabloid newspaper photographs the 69-year-old monarch at Munich’s Hilton Airport hotel swimming pool, accompanied by a younger woman said to be a security guard
• The king’s presence in his adopted Bavarian home has been controversial in both Germany and Thailand. His latest trip coincides (...)
Thai protesters demand changes, including the repeal of a draconian law that criminalises any criticism of the king.
Bangkok, Thailand – Protesters once again turned out onto the streets of Bangkok, calling for reforms to the Thai monarchy and the military government.
With thousands in (...)
Thailand may be opening up to tourists, but for many activists it is still a prison.
On a Thursday afternoon in June last year, Sitanun Satsaksit was chatting on the phone with her brother Wanchalearm as he was walking down a small street in front of his apartment in Cambodia’s capital Phnom (...)
A combination of political suppression and public fatigue appear to have resulted in a marked decline in online and offline political protests in Thailand this year.
In Thailand, the use of digital platforms has been instrumental in facilitating offline protests, as seen in the mass (...)
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