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. …
POLICE CO-OPERATION ON KOH TAO MURDERS: ‘OH YES THEY WILL, OH NO THEY WON’T WON’T’
HIGH NOON IN THE SAMUI ARCHIPELAGO? Head of Koh Phangan Police – He could join the ‘Outlaws’ British police might be well advised to send two teams to investigate the murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller when they take up the offer by Prime Minister General Prauth Chan-ocha. The first time should be the official one – the second …
EVIDENCE OF TORTURE SEEMS LIKELY IN KOH TAO ENQUIRY
KOH TAO MURDERS: HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION TO SUMMONS OFFICERS ON THE GROUND Porntip Senior police officers involved in the Koh Tao murder investigation today appeared before a board of the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand to answer allegations about the torture of Burmese migrant workers and suspects. The HRC has now it says received ‘credible information’ on torture and …
HOT LINE OPENS FOR KOH TAO MURDERS
BUT POLICE WARN ‘BE CAREFUL. YOU COULD BE SUED’. The Thai National Commission for Human Rights has provided a hotline and an email for any witnesses who feel they can shed new light on the murders of Britons David Miller and Hannah Witheridge on the island of Koh Tao. But almost simultaneously Deputy Police Commissioner-General Pol Col Somyos Pumphanmuang was …