<div><em>The Supreme Court sentenced to life imprisonment a northeastern red shirt leader convicted of arson, committed in response to the violent crackdown on red shirts in Bangkok. The red-shirt tells Prachatai he would prefer just to be executed. </em></div>
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By Thaweeporn Kummetha |
<div><span>The Thai Appeal Court on Thursday upheld the verdict of the Court of First Instance, sentencing Yotwarit Chuklom aka Jeng Dokjik, a comedian turned red-shirt activist and politician to two years in jail for lèse majesté, without suspended jail term. </span></div>
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<div>The court found Yotwarit guilty of lèse majesté for a speech and a gesture, at a red-shirt United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) rally on 28 March 2010. </div>
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<div>The 2010 red-shirt demonstration was to pressure the then Prime Minister
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<div>Thai Criminal Court on Tuesday ruled that Narin Srichomphoo, an anti-establishment red-shirt supporter, was killed by a high velocity bullet shot by the military. </div>
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By Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) |
<p>HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL</p>
<p><a href="http://www.alrc.net/doc/mainfile.php/hrc24">Twenty-fourth session</a>, Agenda Item 3, General Debate</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.alrc.net/doc/mainfile.php/hrc24/765">A written statement</a> submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status</strong></p>
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By Harrison George |
<p>The long-delayed report of the National Human Rights Commission into the violence in April and May 2010 has finally been released. Ho-hum.</p>
<p>While some commentators believe that the release was timed to distract public opinion from other matters like the Amnesty Bill, this seems a feeble argument. First, because of leaked drafts, its content was very much as expected.</p>
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