<p>Thailand’s ongoing failure to enact comprehensive prison reforms has created conditions for human rights violations to be rife in its prison system, FIDH and UCL said in a new report published today. The report, titled “Behind the walls – A look at prison conditions in Thailand after the coup,” documents how&nbsp;conditions in prisons examined by FIDH and UCL are in breach of Thailand’s obligations under international instruments to which it is a state party.</p>

<div>Paris, Bangkok, 25 January 2017: A United Nations (UN) body has demanded Thai authorities immediately and unconditionally release lèse-majesté detainee Pongsak Sriboonpeng, according to information received by FIDH.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><img alt="" src="http://graduateinstitute.ch/files/live/sites/iheid/files/sites/students/careers/Connexion/img/Fidh_logo.jpg" /></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>In an opinion issued on 21 November 2016, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) requested that Thailand immediately re </div>

<p><section> <p>The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of FIDH and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in&nbsp;Thailand.</p> <p><strong>Description of the situation:</strong></p> </section></p>

<p><span>Over the past year, Southeast Asia has witnessed significant setbacks with regard to the abolition of the death penalty, FIDH said in a new report published today, on the occasion of the 14th World Day Against the Death Penalty.</span><br /><br /><span>The report, titled “</span><a> </a></p>

<div><strong>FIDH (International Federation for Human Rights)</strong></div> <div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><strong>and its member organizations in Thailand</strong></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><strong>Union for Civil Liberty (UCL)</strong></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><strong>and</strong></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><strong>Internet Law Reform Dialogue ( </strong></div></div>

<p>Paris, Bangkok, 18 May 2016: The Thai government deceived the international community with regard to the real human rights situation in the country during the UN-backed Universal Periodic Review (UPR), held in Geneva, Switzerland, on 11 May 2016, FIDH, its member organization Union for Civil Liberty (UCL), and its partner organization Internet Law Reform Dialogue (iLaw) said today.</p>

<p>On the eve of the five-year anniversary of his detention, we, the undersigned international organizations, condemn the ongoing and arbitrary deprivation of liberty of human rights defender Somyot Phrueksakasemsuk and call on Thailand’s authorities to immediately and unconditionally release him.</p>

<p dir="ltr">Lèse-majesté detentions have reached alarming levels after the 22 May 2014 military coup in Thailand, FIDH and UCL said in <a href="https://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/fidh_thailand_report_lese_majeste.pdf">a new report published today</a>.</p>

<div>Paris, Bangkok, 4 February 2016: A UN body has requested that Thailand immediately release lèse-majesté detainee Pornthip Munkong aka Golf and award her compensation for the arbitrary detention she has been subjected to, according to information received by FIDH.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>In an opinion adopted on 2 December 2015, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) declared that Golf’s detention is arbitrary because it contravenes Articles 9 and 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and Articles 9(3) and 19(2) of the International Covenant on Civil and P </div>

<p>UN member states must use the next Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Thailand to demand key human rights commitments from the government, FIDH, its member organization Union for Civil Liberty (UCL), and its partner organization Internet Law Reform Dialogue (iLaw) said today.</p> <p>FIDH, UCL, and iLaw made the call with the release of two joint submissions for Thailand’s second UPR, which is scheduled to be held in April 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland.</p>

<p>August 30 marks the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. Thailand has not been immune to enforced disappearances. Over the past two years, two United Nations (UN) bodies, the Committee Against Torture and the Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, have expressed concern over the numerous cases of enforced disappearances in Thailand.</p>

<div>Paris, 23 June 2015: Thailand should amend Article 112 of the Criminal Code (lèse-majesté), the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) said in its concluding observations released yesterday after its review of Thailand’s report on 4-5 June in Geneva.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The CESCR expressed concern over the “adverse effect of the excessive interpretation” of lèse-majesté on the enjoyment of the right of everyone to take part in cultural life. </div>