By Human Rights Watch |
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<div><strong>Thailand: Junta Leader Named Prime Minister</strong></div>
<div><strong>Repression Continues Three Months After Military Coup</strong></div>
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<div>AUGUST 22, 2014</div>
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<div>(New York) – The appointment of Thailand’s junta leader as prime minister by the military-picked legislature does not advance human rights or a return to democratic rule, Human Rights Watch said today.</div>
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<div>On August 21, 2014, the 191-member National Legislative Asse
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<div><a href="http://en.khaosod.co.th/detail.php?newsid=1403337477&typecate=06&section=">Khaosod English</a> reported on Saturday that the spokesperson of the military junta claimed the army is detaining an anti-establishment red-shirt activist at an undisclosed location so she can meditate without any distractions from the outside world. </div>
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<div>Kritsuda Khunasen, 27, was arrested by soldiers on 28 May in eastern Chonburi province, according to a number of activists.
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By Human Rights Watch |
<div>Concerns Over Summons for Person Arrested by Soldiers in May</div>
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<div>JUNE 18, 2014</div>
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<div>(New York) – The Thai military authorities should immediately provide information about the whereabouts of an opposition activist arrested by soldiers on May 28, 2014, Human Rights Watch said today.
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By Thaweeporn Kummetha |
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<div>The Supreme Court on Wednesday morning ruled not to allow a trial with additional witnesses, submitted by the plaintiff in the case of the disappearance of Somchai Neelapaijit, a Muslim human rights lawyer. </div>
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By Thaweeporn Kummetha |
<div>Enforced disappearance has happened again and again in Thailand. The number of victims may be over 3,000. Still, no one has ever been held to account for these crimes. This story explores how the practice has become systematic and part of the 'culture' of the land of smiles.</div>
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<div><span>The 3rd Parliamentary Delegation to visit Lao PDR during 25-7 August over the enforced disappearance last December of noted activist Sombath Somphone reported in a press conference at the FCCT that there was no new information, with the official investigation going nowhere and the Lao government still in denial.</span></div>
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By Suluck Lamubol |
<p>On the evening of Saturday, December 15 last year, Sombath Somphone was seen in CCTV footage being taken away by a man in plain clothes in a white truck, after he had been stopped by police officers in Thadue Road, Vientiane, Laos. </p>
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By Harrison George |
<p>This ASEAN Economic Community cannot come a moment too soon. If nothing else, it will give Thailand a chance to learn how to do things properly from the more advanced countries in ASEAN. Like Lao.</p>
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By Justice for Peace Foundation |
<p>On 28 May, the Justice for Peace Foundation (JPF) called on the Thai Government to ratify and comply with the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances in a report which documents the enforced disappearance of 59 people from throughout Thailand.</p>
By Reporters Without Borders |
<p>As the world marks International Day of the Disappeared today [30 Aug], Reporters Without Borders notes that many countries are still violating international law on this matter, including the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, which the UN General Assembly adopted in 2006.</p>
By Justice for Peace Foundation |
<p>Bangkok – Today (December 23, 2010) is the very day The Convention for Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance become effective, after Iraq has ratified this convention as 20th nation on November 23, 2010.</p>
<p>GENEVA – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Wednesday hailed the coming into force of a landmark new human rights treaty designed to deter the practice of enforced disappearance, punish its practitioners and protect its victims. After Iraq became the 20th State to ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance on 23 November 2010, it will officially come into force 30 days later on 23 December 2010.</p>