<p>(New York, October 16, 2014) – Leaders at the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Summit should press&nbsp;<a href="http://www.hrw.org/thailand" target="_blank">Thailand</a>’s junta leader to improve human rights and restore democratic civilian rule, Human Rights Watch said today in&nbsp;<a href="http://www.hrw.org/node/129929" target="_blank">letters</a>&nbsp;to ASEM foreign ministers. ASEM is an informal process that brings together the 28 European Union member states and 2 other European countries with 20 Asian countries.&nbsp;</p>

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<div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div> <div>Thai police on Thursday said that they had arrested five red shirts suspected of being “men in black” who allegedly attacked the military near the Democracy Monument in April 2010, resulting in 26 civilian and military deaths. </div></div></div>

<div> <div><strong>Thailand: Opposition Supporter 'Disappeared'</strong></div> <div>End Arbitrary Arrests, Secret Military Detention</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>9 September 2014</div> </div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The Thai government should immediately disclose the whereabouts of an opposition supporter arrested by soldiers in Bangkok on September 5, 2014, Human Rights Watch said today. </div>

<div> <div>About 4,000 illegal migrant children are arbitrarily arrested in Thailand and detained separately from their parents in inhumane conditions without adequate food, healthcare, or space, according to the latest report by Human Rights Watch (HRW). &nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Moreover, migrant children aged nine to 12 are kept in the same cells in detention centres as adult prisoners on various charges. &nbsp;This makes them directly and indirectly vulnerable to violence committed by the adult prisoners. </div></div>

<div><strong>A Statement from Thai Lawyers for Human Rights forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)</strong></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) in collaboration with Cross Cultural Foundation (CrCF) and Amnesty International Thailand was planning to organize a presentation of report on the situation of human rights “Access to Justice in Thailand: Currently Unavailable Human Rights Situation 100 Days after the Coup” today. </div>

<div> <div><strong>Thailand: Junta Leader Named Prime Minister</strong></div> <div><strong>Repression Continues Three Months After Military Coup</strong></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>AUGUST 22, 2014</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> </div> <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> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On August 21, 2014, the 191-member National Legislative Asse </div>

<div>AUGUST 20, 2014</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><strong>Thailand: Theater Activists Jailed for Insulting Monarchy</strong></div> <div><strong>Lese Majeste Arrests Increase Since Military Coup</strong></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>(New York) – The arrest of two activists involved in a play considered by Thai military authorities to be “insulting to the monarchy” shows the decline in freedom of expression in Thailand since the May 22, 2014 coup, Human Rights Watch said today. </div>

<div><strong>Thailand: Investigate Alleged Torture of Activist</strong></div> <div> <div><strong>Junta Dismissive of Kritsuda Khunasen’s Allegations</strong></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>AUGUST 5, 2014</div> </div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Thai authorities should immediately and impartially investigate the alleged torture of an opposition activist in military custody, Human Rights Watch said today. </div>

<div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The Thai military junta should amend the interim constitution it unilaterally promulgated that gives it sweeping powers without accountability or safeguards against human rights violations.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On July 22, 2014, Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha, the head of the ruling National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), proclaimed the 2014 interim constitution. </div>

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