By Prachatai |
<p>Ministry of Interior has dismissed an appeal to nominate Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal to be Amnesty's Board Member. Amnesty will file a lawsuit, but the student activist fears that when he get the position back, his term will already be over. </p>
By Amnesty International |
By Kornkritch Somjittranukit |
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<div>The name Gen Anupong Paojinda turned up in various controversies last week.
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<div>The Interior Minister’s permission for a Red Bull company to build a reservoir on the site of a community forest has run into protests. </div>
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<div>On 8 September 2017, the Facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Watchdog.ACT/posts/1632784810086915">Watchdog Act</a> published Interior Ministry documents on a request from KTD Property Development Limited to use over 12 acres of Huai Mek community forest in Khon Kaen Province.
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<div>The Interior Minister has said the junta will collect the ID numbers of anyone who gives feedback on the four questions about elections posed by junta head Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha to the public last week. </div>
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<div>On 26 May 2017 during his weekly televised address, Prayut asked four questions seeking feedback on the issue of elections. </div>
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<div>The four questions were:</div>
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<li>Will the next election lead to ‘good governance’?</li>
<li>If not, what should be done?</li>
<li>Is it right to focus only on elections, at the expense of the co<br />
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<p>The National Anti-Corruption Commission has concluded that Abhisit Vejjajiva, former Democrat Party Prime Minister, and Suthep Thaugsuban, his former Deputy, are not guilty for ordering the violent military crackdown on the anti-establishment red-shirt protesters during the April-May 2010 political violence. </p>