At the Clooney Foundation for Justice’s award ceremony for the 2023 Albie Awards, lawyers from Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) during their acceptance speech addressed the prosecution and detention of activists charged for political expression.

<div> <div>A co-founder of Thai Human Rights for Lawyers (TLHR) has received an International Women of Courage award by the US government for her efforts to provide legal assistance for those prosecuted by the ruling junta. </div> <div> </div> <div>On 21 March 2018, the US Department of State announced that Sirikan ‘June’ Charoensiri, a TLHR lawyer, was among the 10 awardees of this year’s International Women of Courage (IWC). </div> <div> </div> <div>The US states that Sirikan was a co-founder of TLHR which has provided “pro-bono legal services in human rights cases and has doc </div></div>

<div> <div>Over the past week, a teenage singer was slammed by nationalists after complaining about her country on Twitter. A lecturer put a student in a headlock for protesting a university ceremony. And various prosecution cases moved forward against human rights advocates and politicians.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Late last week, Thai social media heated up over <a href="http://www.prachatai.org/english/node/7308">tweets from a pop singer</a> called ‘Image’ who had expressed her discontent at living in Thailand. </div></div>

<p>The police have summoned a human rights lawyer who represented 14 well-known anti-junta youth activists imprisoned in 2015, accusing her of making false charges against officers. &nbsp;</p> <p>On 31 July 2017, Sirikan Charoensiri, a lawyer from Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR), received a letter from Chanasongkram Police Station, summoning her to hear charges against her at 10:30 am on 8 August.</p> <p>The letter states that she is accused of violating Articles 172 and 174 of the Criminal Code for making false accusations against investigating officers.</p>

<div><img alt="" src="http://www.asef.org/images/stories/partners/images/forum_asia.jpg" /></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>3 October 2016</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The Thai Government should immediately drop all proceedings against human rights lawyer, Sirikan Charoensiri, including the specious accusation of sedition, which apparently relate to her organization’s representation of 14 student activists peacefully protesting in June 2015, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Asian Fo </div>

<p dir="ltr">The police have accused an embattled human rights lawyer of sedition and violation of the junta’s political gathering ban, for observing a pro-democracy protest.</p> <p>Police from Samranrat Police Station issued a summon order for Sirikan Charoensiri, a lawyer from the Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR), to report to the station on 27 September 2016,<a href="http://www.tlhr2014.com/th/?p=2252"> the TLHR reported</a>. &nbsp;</p>

<p>Police officers have decided to press charges against a human rights lawyer representing anti-junta youth activists, accusing her of defying police orders.</p> <p>According to Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR), on Thursday, 12 May 2016, the prosecutor of Dusit District Court, Bangkok, informed Sirikan Charoensiri, TLHR lawyer, that police investigators have agreed to press charges against her under Articles 142 and 368 of the Criminal Code for propagating false accusations against investigating officers and disobeying police orders.</p>

<p>On 27 April 2016, Ms. Sirikan (“June”) Charoensiri, a lawyer at Thai Lawyers for Human Rights, received a summons<strong>&nbsp;to report to the public prosecutor at the Office of Special Prosecutor at Subdistrict 3 Court (Dusit) in Bangkok on 12 May 2016 at 10.00.</strong></p>

<p><a href="http://hrw.pr-optout.com/Tracking.aspx?Data=HHL%3d8-30%3d0-%3eLCE593719%26SDG%3c90%3a.&amp;RE=MC&amp;RI=4432086&amp;Preview=False&amp;DistributionActionID=95051&amp;Action=Follow+Link">Thailand</a>’s government should stop bringing trumped-up criminal charges against human rights lawyers to harass and retaliate against them, Human Rights Watch said today. Thailand’s friends, including the United States, should publicly call on the military junta to stop persecuting its critics.<br /></p>

<p>A human rights lawyer for the 14 well-known anti-junta youth activists detained in June and July 2015, has denied charges that she refused to cooperate with police officers.</p> <p>Sirikan Charoensiri, a lawyer from Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR), met police officers at Chanasongkram Police Station in Bangkok on Tuesday, 9 February 2016, to hear the charges against her after she received a summons from the police station last week.</p>

<p>On 2 February 2016, human rights defender Ms&nbsp;<strong>Sirikan Charoensiri</strong>&nbsp;received a summons ordering her to report to Chanasongkram Police Station in Bangkok on&nbsp;<span data-term="goog_1334993938" tabindex="0">9 February 2016</span>. The human rights defender is accused of making a false police report and refusing to comply with an order of a competent official.</p>

<p>Police have summoned a lawyer for the well-known anti-junta 14 youth activists imprisoned in June and July 2015, accusing her of disobeying the orders of police officers. &nbsp;</p> <p>According to&nbsp;<a href="https://tlhr2014.wordpress.com/2016/02/02/sirikan-ndm/">Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (THLR)</a>, Sirikan Charoensiri, a TLHR lawyer, received two letters from Chanasongkram Police Station in Bangkok on Tuesday, 2 February 2016.</p>