By Human Rights Watch |
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<div><strong>Thailand: Junta Leader Named Prime Minister</strong></div>
<div><strong>Repression Continues Three Months After Military Coup</strong></div>
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<div>AUGUST 22, 2014</div>
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<div>(New York) – The appointment of Thailand’s junta leader as prime minister by the military-picked legislature does not advance human rights or a return to democratic rule, Human Rights Watch said today.</div>
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<div>On August 21, 2014, the 191-member National Legislative Asse
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By Human Rights Lawyers Association |
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<div><strong>Violation of freedom of expression must be stopped</strong></div>
<div><strong>Fair trial principles must be observed</strong></div>
<div><strong>Two student activists must be released without delay</strong></div>
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<div> During 15-16 August 2014, police officials from the Chana Songkhram Metropolitan Police Station arrested Mr.
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By Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) |
<div>9 August 2014</div>
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<div><span>In two video clips released to the public on 2 and 3 August 2014, Kritsuda Khunasaen, who was arbitrarily detained by the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), detailed her experience while in detention. She described a range of forms of both mental and physical torture.
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<div>The military have refused to disclose the whereabouts of a red-shirt supporter who has been detained for 13 days, and say he wants to continue his stay in a military camp. </div>
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<div>On Friday, lawyers from the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lawyercenter2014">Thai Lawyers for Human Rights</a>, a network of human rights lawyers, met the police and the military to ask for information regarding Yongyuth Boondee, aka “Daeng Shinjang,” because he has been detained for longer than seven days -- the period allowed under martial law.
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<div>05 August 2014</div>
<div><strong>Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights </strong>: Ravina Shamdasani</div>
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<div><strong>Location:</strong> Geneva</div>
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<div><strong>Subject: </strong>Thailand</div>
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<div>We have been very concerned by the methods of arrest and detention of politicians, activists, academics and journalists following the military coup in Thailand in May this year. </div>
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<div>Since 22 May 2014, more than 700 individuals have been summoned and arreste
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<div><strong>Thailand: Investigate Alleged Torture of Activist</strong></div>
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<div><strong>Junta Dismissive of Kritsuda Khunasen’s Allegations</strong></div>
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<div>AUGUST 5, 2014</div>
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<div>Thai authorities should immediately and impartially investigate the alleged torture of an opposition activist in military custody, Human Rights Watch said today.
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<div>A junta spokesman on Sunday denied the allegations by red-shirt activist Kritsuda Khunasen that the military tortured her during her illegal detention and forced her to lie on TV that she was happy, insisting that her happiness was real, according to Matichon Online. </div>
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<div>Col Winthai Suvaree, spokesman for the junta’s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), said he was “surprised” by what the red-shirt activist said during an interview with Jom Petchpradab, a veteran independent journalist, published on YouTube and released on Saturda
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<div>Red-shirt activist Kritsuda Khunasen has revealed that when she was illegally detained by the junta, she was suffocated and physically assaulted. The torture was aimed at forcing her to link former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to hard core red-shirt groups, according to Kritsuda. </div>
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<div>In late June, Kritsuda was the focus of media and human rights organizations’ attention because during her detention, no one was able to contact her and it was not known where she was detained.
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<div>Kritsuda Khunasen, a red-shirt activist who in June was illegally detained by the junta for more than 20 days under suspicious circumstances, has left Thailand and is now seeking political asylum in Europe. </div>
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<div><img alt="" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2925/14613401139_51a564a252_o.png" /></div>
<div><span>Kritsuda Khunasen (mid) appears at the Crime Suppression Division on 24 June</span></div>
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<div>Panya Unanan, a red-shirt supporter and former red-shirt guard, has been detained by the military since Tuesday afternoon, according to his wife, who asked to remain unidentified. </div>
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<div>On Tuesday at 3 pm, a group of soldiers arrested Panya at Charoenkrung Pracharak Hospital in Bangkok’s Bang Kho Laem district, where he works as a paramedic. </div>
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<div>His wife believes that the military was actually targeting Panya’s twin brother Santi, who has been more active in the red-shirt movement, because the military visited P
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<div>About five military officers at 10.30 am on Thursday detained a land rights activist and active member of the Assembly of the Poor at his home in the Buriram Province, after a week of tension between the military and villagers over a land issue, according to the Assembly of the Poor.</div>
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<div>Prom Jarana, 65-year-old land rights activist and active member of the Assembly of the Poor, a grassroots network which works to promote land rights, was taken from his home in Pakham District, northeastern Buriram Province by five military officers.
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By Asian Human Rights Commission |
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<div>The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concernedto have learned that Thanapol Eawsakul, writer, human rights defender, and editor of Fa Diew Kan (Same Sky) journal and publishing house, has been re-arrested and is being held by the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO). The conditions of his re-arrest and detention are arbitrary and a clear derogation of the Government of Thailand's obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
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