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<div>The junta leader has urged people to report lèse majesté cases and warned that he will use legal measures against lèse majesté and anti-junta political dissent. Meanwhile, the Justice Minister stepped up lèse majesté searches overseas.
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<div>A group of anti-coup activists produced a music video mocking the junta. It said it is aiming at breaking fear created by the military regime. Resistant Citizen, a group composed of activists, academics, human rights workers and lawyers, on Thursday released a music video which makes fun of the military power and the unpromising general election. </div>
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<p dir="ltr">Thailand’s human rights agency will submit a letter to the Thai junta leader, urging it to reconsider the plan to merge the agency with the Ombudsman Office, while civil groups condemned the plan.</p>
By Human Rights Watch |
<p dir="ltr">(New York, January 29, 2015) –<a href="http://hrw.pr-optout.com/Tracking.aspx?Data=HHL%3d8%2c46%3d9-%3eLCE593719%26SDG%3c90%3a.&RE=MC&RI=4432086&Preview=False&DistributionActionID=71405&Action=Follow+Link"> Thailand</a>’s military government has severely repressed fundamental rights and freedoms since the May 22, 2014 coup, Human Rights Watch said today in its <a href="http://hrw.pr-optout.com/Tracking.aspx?Data=HHL%3d8%2c46%3d9-%3eLCE593719%26SDG%3c90%3a.&RE=MC&RI=4432086&Preview=False&DistributionActionID=71404&Action=Follow+Link">World Re</a></p>
<p>The junta leader enjoyed a ‘massage of congratulation’ from leaders of other states, according to the official website of the Royal Thai Government.</p>
<p>The misspelling on the official <a href="http://www.thaigov.go.th/">website of the Royal Thai government</a> was spotted by local media on Wednesday. It read ‘massage of congratulations’ on the page introducing Prayut Chan-o-cha, the current Prime Minister and the head of the junta, and his brief biography.</p>
By Human Rights Watch |
<p>(Washington, D.C.) -- More than a dozen labor and human rights organizations today sent a letter to Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, asking him to end a pilot project to recruit prisoners from Thailand’s correctional facilities to fill a labor shortage in the fishing industry. Multiple reports have documented gross labor violations on Thai fishing boats, including forced labor, physical violence, illegally low wages and human trafficking.</p>
<p>The Thai junta leader said the government will try to cooperate with other countries to extradite lèse majesté suspects back to Thailand to prevent them from undermining the regime from overseas. </p>
By Harrison George |
<p>Coast guards have been struggling to take control of an abandoned cargo ship heading for the Thai coast on automatic pilot. The ship is thought to be carrying hundreds, if not thousands, of unregistered human rights violations. International maritime authorities believe that the ship and its desperate cargo have been left to their fate by unscrupulous National Human Rights Commissioners.</p>
<p class="p1">The Junta leader has accused some of the media of inciting conflict and attacking him personally and threatens to use martial law to shut them down.</p>
<p class="p2">According to <a href="http://www.matichon.co.th/news_detail.php?newsid=1419480018"><span class="s1">Matichon Online</span></a>, Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, prime minister and the head of the junta’s National Council of Peace and Order (NCPO), said he can stand public criticism as a public figure, but not personal attacks against him. He then urged the media to respect his privacy and his human dignity.</p>
By Pavin Chachavalpongpun |
<p>The curtain is drawn. The year 2014 is coming to a close. In the past twelve months, Thailand has experienced some excitements as well as tragedies. This article revisits the year’s calendar and picks the ten most memorable events that have characterized 2014.</p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ac8a56d1-7c02-3ee6-0ad5-4615bf63fa79">Thailand’s junta leader threw a banana peel at a cameraman’s head after getting annoyed at being asked to face the camera too many times.</span></p>