1st anniversary 2014 coup
26 Jun 2015
About 100 people gathered at Bangkok’s Democracy Monument on Thursday when a group of embattled activists from Bangkok and Khon Kaen awaited arrest by the police and rallied against the military regime amid tight security.
On 25 June, 11 anti-junta student activists under the newly founded Neo Democracy Movement (NDM) protested against the military dictatorship at the Democracy Monument, Ratchadamnoen Avenue, Bangkok.
The rally began in the afternoon after the group left Suan Ngern Mee Ma, a place under the care of Sulak Sivaraks
25 Jun 2015
About 20 police officers, most in plainclothes, have been deployed at the entrance to a Bangkok safe house of 11 of 14 student activists wanted on arrest warrants for protesting.
The 11 are wanted on arrest warrants for commemorating the first anniversary of the coup at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre and in Khon Kaen on 22 May.
Rangsiman Rome, one of the 11, told Prachatai that they will not resist arrest as this fight is coming to an end.
24 Jun 2015
The police on Wednesday morning arrested Natchacha Kongudom, a transgender student activist, after she was admitted to hospital.
Natchacha, 21, is one of the eight students wanted on an arrest warrant for violating the junta’s order when they attempted to commemorate the first anniversary of the coup d’état on 22 May.
Natchacha was admitted to Vibhavadi Hospital.
19 Jun 2015
The Thai junta has threatened to issue arrest warrants against anti-coup student activists who refuse to report to the police.
On Thursday, Col Winthai Suwaree, the spokesperson of the junta’s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), announced that if the student activists from the Dao Din Group, an anti-junta student activist group from the northeastern province of Khon Kaen, fail to report to the police on 18 June, the police will issue arrest warrants against them.
5 Jun 2015
At least four student activists who last week were detained for an attempt to commemorate the first anniversary of the military coup were summoned to hear charges for violating the junta’s order.
The police accused the student activists of violating the junta’s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) which prohibits an assembly of more than five people.
26 May 2015
The month of May is a politically loaded month for modern Thai political history. Our society as a whole, however, seems to have failed to learn and consolidate crucial lessons from its past.
The bloody uprising in May 1992 (from the 17th to 20th), which ousted then-military dictator General Suchinda Kraprayoon, took place this week 23 years ago. At least 40 were killed and 600 injured.
A major newspaper's photo-caption on Monday summarised the situation well.
25 May 2015
Paris, Bangkok, 23 May 2015: Yesterday’s arbitrary arrests of students and activists are the latest example of the Thai military junta’s relentless repression of all forms of peaceful dissent, FIDH and its member organization Union for Civil Liberty (UCL) said today.
“Yesterday’s arbitrary arrests confirm that Thailand is ruled by a brutal dictatorship that has no respect for human rights and no tolerance for dissent,” said FIDH President Karim Lahidji. “The international community must vigorously condemn the crackdown.”
25 May 2015
Netiwit Choltiphatphaisal, a student who was among those detained on the first anniversary of the 2014 Coup commemoration, wrote a memo on what happened before he and his friends were arrested.
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On Friday after school, I heard that there would be a symbolic activity to commemorate the first anniversary of the coup.
23 May 2015
The National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) has unlawfully seized ruling power from the people on 22 May 2015. 112 decrees have been issued by the NCPO in the past one year including 184 NCPO Orders, 17 Orders by the NCPO’s Head, and 112 Bills have already been deliberated by the National Legislative Assembly (NLA).
23 May 2015
For release on 22 May 2015
Today many students groups gathered to express their political views and opposition to the coup.
23 May 2015
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
PRESS RELEASE
22 May 2015
The arbitrary arrests of students and anti-coup activists in at least three separate incidents today in Thailand’s capital Bangkok and the north-eastern city of Khon Kaen come as a stark reminder of the ongoing intolerance of peaceful dissent a year into military rule, Amnesty International said today.
“A full year since the Thai military declared martial law and took power, we are seeing how peaceful dissent is still being steamrolled in the stre
22 May 2015
At least 34 people arrested on Friday evening for commemorating the coup were released without charge, on condition that they stop political activities. However, student activists in Khon Kaen face charges and were released on 7,500 baht bail.
The first arrests occurred about 6 pm after a group of students gathered at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC), Siam Square.
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