The Thai Government lied to the United Nations when it presented its case earlier this month to answer allegations of human rights abuses for the UN Periodical Review, according to Thai Lawyers for Human Rights. TLHR did not use the word lie. They preferred to say that the Thai Government representatives were ‘inconsistent with the truth’ – after government ‘military’ …
‘SABBITI HORIBILIS’ FOR GENERAL PRAYUTH AS HE MEETS BAD NEWS WITH THREATS
View PostThe ‘blitzkrieg’ on media in Thailand by the country’s ‘eccentric megalomaniac’ – report
‘Reporters without Borders today publishes a scathing attack by Thailand’s military leader Prayuth Chan-Ocha whom the report describes as an ‘eccentric megalomaniac’. Led by Gen. Prayuth Chan-o-cha, the Thai junta has been persecuting the media for the past 18 months, imposing a reign of terror that has included interrogations, arbitrary arrests, a spate of prosecutions and barely veiled threats. And …
INTERPRETER COMES FORWARD TO HELP IN FOREIGN COURT CASE – SHOCK –
HUMAN RIGHTS COMEDY IN THAILAND CONTINUES – Human Rights Watch is not surprisingly up in arms against the proposed constitution of the Thai National Human Rights Commission, one of which is a notorious supporter of the lèse majesté laws under which anybody can be locked up for saying something which somebody not the King believes is insulting to Thailand’s ailing monarch. …
THAILAND’S ROLLING CRACK DOWN ON DEMOCRACY
Human Rights Watch today called for charges to be dropped against critics who were charged yesterday for violating the ban on criminal activity after being arrested on February for holding a mock election at the Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre on February 14th. The four will face the Bangkok Military Court in what HRW described as a ‘rolling crack down on civil and …
KOH TAO MURDERS – BURMA WANTS NEW INVESTIGATION
THAI GOVERNMENT SENSITIVE. POLICE KEEP SHTUM MEDIA AND SOCIAL MEDIA UNDER THREAT The Burmese Government today made an official request to Thailand to open a new investigation into the murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the holiday island of Koh Tao – after police point blank refused to answer allegations of torture. The move came after Thai prosecutors …