<div> <div>The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has initiated an investigation into the recent killing of a Lahu activist after the incident raised great concern among both international and domestic human rights organisations.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On 21 March 2016, National Human Rights Commissioner Angkhana Neelapaijit <a href="http://www.bbc.com/thai/thailand-39337564?ocid=socialflow_facebook">stated</a> that the NHRC will collect reports and documents related to the recent summary killing of Chaiyaphum Pasae, She said that the incident has made her lose faith in the Thai </div></div>

<div> <h2 style="text-align: center;">AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL</h2> <h2 style="text-align: center;">PUBLIC STATEMENT</h2> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><strong>Thailand: Proposed amendments to Computer-Related Crime Act fail to address human rights concerns</strong></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Bangkok, 25 October 2016</div> </div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>We, the undersigned international human rights organizations, urge Thailand’s National Legislative Assembly (NLA) to reject currently proposed amendments to the 2007 Computer-Related Crime Act (CCA) and to instead adopt amendments that would bring the law into l </div>

<p>Thailand’s military government is brazenly seeking to shut down debate ahead of a referendum on a draft constitution, Amnesty International said today.</p> <p>At least a dozen Facebook commenters have been detained or charged on 27 April under a draconian new Order issued by the head of the military government. The arrests come after they commented on the controversial draft of a new constitution Thailand’s military government is seeking to impose.</p> <p>The Facebook users who were charged under the law now face up to 10 years in prison and a fine of 200,000 baht ($5,715).</p>

<div title="Page 1"> <div> <div> <div> <p>On the first anniversary of the lifting of martial law in Thailand, and as officials announced they will hold political re-education courses in army camps for government critics, Amnesty International calls on Thai authorities to lift the “virtual” martial law powers it has granted to the military in decrees that restrict human rights to the further detriment of the rule of law in the country.</p> </div></div></div></div>

<p>The <a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2016/02/annual-report-201516/">2015/2016 Amnesty International Report</a> Thailand analysis is, as you might expect, critical of the military regime. In response, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a <a href="http://www.mfa.go.th/main/en/media-center/14/64840-Thailand's-comments-on-Amnesty-International.html">press release</a> which lamented the fact that the Amnesty International (AI) report “only presents issues of concern” and “does not consider the particular context of Thailand”.</p>

<p>The Thai junta leader has scolded Amnesty International’s campaign for Thai political dissidents, saying that the organization encourages people who have violated the law.</p> <p>After the abduction of Sirawit Serithiwat, a pro-democracy student activist leader, last week, Amnesty International (AI) started a campaign calling on its members to send letters to Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, the junta leader and Prime Minister, and Don Pramudwinai, Minister of Foreign Affairs, to demand that the regime drop charges against Sirawit and other dissidents.</p>

<p>The arrest of a group of 37 activists in Thailand ahead of a planned anti-corruption protest is the latest evidence that the country’s military government is using arbitrary powers of detention to silence peaceful activism, Amnesty International said today.</p> <p>The group of 36 students and a lawyer were detained on Monday morning while travelling by train to Rajabhakti Park in Hua Hin, central Thailand, to attend a demonstration against alleged military corruption.</p>

<div>Amnesty International and the National Human Rights Commission visited the 14 embattled anti-junta activists at Bangkok prisons on Thursday, while about a hundred people gathered to offer moral support to the jailed activists.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The activists, mostly students, protested against the junta and had been arrested for their nonviolent protests on 26 June.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On Thursday, two representatives from Amnesty International visited the activists and issued an urgent action to call for the activists’ release.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The arreste </div>

<div>AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL</div> <div>PRESS RELEASE</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>22 May 2015</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div> <div>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.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>“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 </div></div>

<p>13 May 2015 -- Southeast Asian governments must step up urgent search and rescue efforts to ensure that thousands of people stranded in boats are not left in dire circumstances and at risk of death, Amnesty International said, as another boat carrying hundreds of people thought to be migrants and asylum seekers in desperate conditions is currently awaiting rescue off the Thai coast.</p>

<div> <div>Amnesty International has called on its members around the world to send letters to the Thai authorities to voice concerns over the alleged torture of suspects in the Bangkok court bombing case.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The London-based organization called for the letters to be sent to the Thai Army Chief and the Thai Police Chief.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The International Secretariat of Amnesty International, based in London, issued the call on 20 March. It says two suspects, Surapon Eamsuwan and Wasu Eamla-au, were in danger of ill treatment and torture. </div></div>

<div>7 February 2015 -- Thai authorities must immediately cancel plans to grant the military enhanced powers to detain civilians for several months without charge or trial, Amnesty International said today.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The National Legislative Assembly, a body appointed by the military which seized power in a coup in May 2014, will later this month consider an amendment to the Statute of the Military Court Act, which would grant military commanders powers to detain civilians for up to 84 days.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>“It is deeply worrying that the Thai military authorities a </div>