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<div>Since the coup d’état on 22 May, Thais have lived with their freedoms and liberties limited. Eating sandwiches and reading George Orwell’s 1984 in public have become crimes. Imitating the Hunger Game’s three-finger salute can land you in jail for seven days. People live in fear that they may be summoned and detained in a military camp. All kinds of media are heavily monitored.
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<div>Military officers directly ordered a newspaper not to publish a story on an anti-coup group, according to a Vice-President of the Thai Journalist Association (TJA).</div>
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<div>On Tuesday 24 June, military officers reportedly visited the newsroom of a newspaper and instructed the editorial staff not to report the establishment of Free Thais for Human Rights and Democracy (FTHD), an anti-coup group in exile.
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By Paisarn Likhitpreechakul |
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<div>Article 30 of the 2007 Thai constitution prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex. The official statement of intention clarifies that this includes discrimination on the basis of gender, gender identity and sexual orientation (referred to as "sexual diversity" in the text).
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<div><a href="http://en.khaosod.co.th/detail.php?newsid=1403686785&typecate=06&section=">Khaosod English</a> reported on Tuesday that the ruling Phue Thai party of the former government has denied any link with the anti-coup group founded in exile by its former leader. </div>
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<div>Chawalit Witchayasutthi, deputy secretary-general of Pheu Thai Party said on Tuesday that the Pheu Thai Party must stay under the framework of rules and laws and that it is personal opinion of former leader Jaruponbg Ruangsuwan to oppose the coup.
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<div>Thai junta has set up working groups to monitor all media channels and will censor media that spreads information which leads to “hatred toward the monarchy,” or which is false. </div>
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<div>Police General Adul Saengsingkaew, Commissioner-General of the Royal Thai Police, in his capacity as Deputy Leader of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), the junta’s temporary administrative body, told the Thai media on Tuesday that bodies have been set up to monitor different types of media: </div>
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By Reporters Without Censors |
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>The best way for journalists to undermine the junta's rule is to report the truth:</strong></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>The First Editorial and Opening of Reporters Without Censors</strong></div>
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<div>Eighty-two years ago today (24 June 1932), Siam became a democracy. Today, the principles of freedom, equality and fraternity that initially came with it have not taken root in our political system.
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Human rights groups calls on junta to end Martial Law, views rights situation worse after one month.
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<div>Apichat P., who has been charged with defying the military junta’s orders and later with lèse majesté, was released from Bangkok Remand Prison on Tuesday after the Criminal Court rejected a police request to renew the custody petition. </div>
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<div>The 25-year-old law graduate student was arrested at the protest at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) on May 23, only a day after the coup took place.
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By FIDH |
<p>Paris, 24 June 2014: Thailand’s military junta, the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), must immediately stop the harassment and arbitrary arrest and detention of peaceful anti-coup protestors, FIDH said today.</p>
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<div>Red-shirt activist Kritsuda Khunasen was reportedly released from detention on Tuesday after she was detained for more than 20 days at an undisclosed location amid rumours that she had been tortured. </div>
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<div>Kritsuda reportedly appeared at the Crime Suppression Division (CSD). She went to the CSD to bail her boyfriend who was also detained by the military and charged with illegal possession of arms.</div>
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<div>The military took Kritsuda from her house in eastern Chonburi province more than 20 days ago.
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