<p>&ldquo;Every 5th of Every Month,&rdquo; the art of remembrance from Mora (Nuntana Wongtawee) to Wanchalearm Satsaksit throughout 1 year after the enforced disappearance.</p>

<p>Amnesty International calls on the Thai authorities to pass a law which includes definitions of torture and enforced disappearances in full accordance with international law and offers justice to victims, after the Thai parliament voted yesterday (16 September) to approve the first reading of a bill criminalizing torture and enforced disappearance.&nbsp;</p>

<p>A newly-launched book documents the ongoing case of Somsak Chuenchit and his 12-year effort to bring the police officers who tortured his son by beating and suffocating&nbsp;him with plastic bags during an interrogation.</p>

<p>As uncertainty looms over whether a bill to criminalize torture and enforced disappearance will be approved by parliament, friends and relatives of the disappeared rallied on 8 September to demand its immediate passing to put an end to impunity and harassment from the authorities.</p>

<p>After repeated delays over the past 7 years, a bill to criminalize torture and enforced disappearance may be debated in parliament as part of an emergency agenda. Many past cases have involved activities by the authorities which will become illegal if the bill passes.</p>

<p>UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged countries to fulfil their obligations to prevent and prosecute cases of enforced disappearance, a &ldquo;cowardly practice&rdquo; which the COVID-19 pandemic has made even more difficult to combat.</p>

<p>An Amnesty International staff member has been fined along with three other speakers and a panel moderator for taking part in a <a href="https://prachatai.com/english/node/9329">panel discussion on enforced disappearance</a> on 4 July 2021.</p>

<p>The Rights and Liberties Protection Department (RLPD) has responded to a request from Prachatai, New Naratif and Voice of Democracy for information regarding progress in the case of Wanchalearm Satsaksit, an activist who was abducted while living in self-exile in Phnom Penh.</p>

<p>A year after the disappearance of Thai activist <a href="https://prachatai.com/english/category/wanchalearm-satsaksit">Wanchalearm Satsaksit</a>, his family still waits for justice while official investigations seem to have stalled.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Prachatai speaks to Sitanun Satsaksit, sister of missing activist in exile Wanchalearm Satsaksit,&nbsp;about the progress in her brother&#39;s case, and how her life has changed since she made the decision to do everything she can to find and call for justice for her brother.</p>

<p>&nbsp;A year after Wanchalearm Satsaksit vanished, authorities say there is no proof he was abducted in Phnom Penh. A joint investigation reveals details of the Thai dissident&rsquo;s escape from Thailand, life in exile in Cambodia and the last days before he disappeared.</p>