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By Prachatai |
<p>Videos depicting sexual acts between an art teacher charged with statutory rape and his alleged victims have been circulating on Twitter for days, Prachatai English has found.&nbsp;</p>
By Harrison George |
<p>Harrison George on Gen Apirat Kongsompong&#39;s statement that the Nakhon Ratchasima mass shooter is &quot;not a soldier anymore&quot;.&nbsp;</p>
By Prachatai |
<p>Around a hundred people gathered in front of the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) yesterday (13 February) for a candlelight vigil to mourn the victims of the Nakhon Ratchasima mass shooting, which took place on Saturday night and Sunday morning (8-9February), and to demand that Gen Apirat Kongsompong take responsibility by resigning from his position as army chief.</p>
By Prachatai |
<p>Criticisms of the army and government have been growing as Thais demand that the army take responsibility for the mass shooting on Saturday night (8 February) at the Terminal 21 shopping centre in Nakhon Ratchasima, which now has a death toll of 30.</p>
<div> <div>Despite a recent ruling from the Administrative Court ordering the authorities to facilitate the civil rights march, local authorities in Nakhon Ratchasima have pressured the civil rights march to leave the area two days earlier than planned.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On 1 February 2018, about 10 local government officials visited participants in We Walk, A Walk for Friendship at a temple in Nakhon Ratchasima and asked them to leave the temple earlier than planned.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>According to Eakachai Issaratha, one of the marchers, the participants planned to stay </div></div>
<div> <div>A group of academics has thrown their support behind the organisers of the civil rights march who are accused of violating a junta order. </div></div>
<p>An embattled villager facing eviction has filed a complaint to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), alleging that police officers abused her.</p> <p>Chatdaporn Seelae, a villager from Nong Phai Lom Village, Nong Sarai Subdistrict, Pak Chong District, in the northeastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima, at 1 pm on Thursday, 11 February 2016, submitted a letter to the NHRC Office in Bangkok.</p>
<p>Police officers in plainclothes in northeastern Thailand, Isan, arrested a villager over a land dispute and allegedly abused her in an attempted eviction.</p>
<p>Conflict between local leaders in Northeastern Nakhon Ratchasima Province, commonly known as Khorat, has led to a lèse majesté accusation. The conflict is centred on the campaign to separate Bua Yai and seven other districts from the large province in the Northeast.&nbsp;</p>
<div> <div>Anuwat Tinarat, a local politician and red-shirt leader from northeastern Nakhon Ratchasima Province (commonly known as ‘Khorat’) has been charged with lèse majesté under Article 112. </div></div>