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<p>The police have detained a key witness of the 2010 military crackdown and another suspect in the Criminal Court bombing immediately after a military court released them on bail. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>On 24 July 2017, the Military Court of Bangkok released on bail Nattatida Meewangpla, Nares Intharasopa, Wasana Buddee, and Nuttapat Onming, suspects in&nbsp;<a href="https://prachatai.org/english/category/2015-criminal-court-bomb">the 2015 Criminal Court bombing</a>.</p>
<div> <div>The military on Wednesday filed a lèse majesté complaint against a key witness to military killings in 2010 and a suspect in an explosives attack at a Bangkok court.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Col Wijan Jodtaeng, Director of the Law and Human Rights Department of the Internal Security Operation Command, and other staff of the junta’s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) on Wednesday filed the complaint with the police against Nattatida Meewangpla under Article 112.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Col Wijan also submitted as evidence screenshots of chat logs of the suspe </div></div>
<p>Four of nine suspects in a case related to explosions in Bangkok said they faced torture and ill-treatment during military detention in March. The torture methods included&nbsp;beatings and electric shocks.</p> <p>Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR)&nbsp;<a href="http://prachatai.org/english/node/4874">called</a>&nbsp;for an independent investigation into the torture complaints from four suspects in a case related to explosions at the Bangkok Criminal Court and Siam Square and planned explosions in other locations in Bangkok.</p>
By Human Rights Watch |
<p>(New York, March 18, 2015) – The&nbsp;<a href="http://www.hrw.org/thailand" target="_blank">Thai</a>&nbsp;military’s warrantless arrest and secret detention of a witness to alleged army crimes raise grave concerns of a politically motivated prosecution, Human Rights Watch said today. Holding the suspect incommunicado for six days heightened the risk of torture and other ill treatment.<br /></p>
By Thai Lawyers for Human Rights |
<p align="center"><strong>Investigation of alleged torture against suspects of the Criminal Court Bomb urged,</strong></p> <p align="center"><strong>Martial Law must be lifted</strong></p> <p align="center"><strong>For immediate release on 17 March 2015</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.khaosodenglish.com/">Khaosod English</a>:&nbsp;A witness of the deadly military crackdown on Redshirt protesters in 2010 emerged from six days of military detention today, a day after the junta denied any involvement in her arrest.</p> <p>Nattathida Meewangpla, 36, was arrested at her residence in Samut Prakarn by five soldiers on 11 March and had been detained in communicado since.&nbsp;</p>
<div> <div>The military has detained incommunicado for almost a week a female medic who is a key witness of the killing of red shirts at a Bangkok temple in 2010, said a human rights lawyer.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Winyat Chatmontree, a human rights lawyer from Free Thai Legal Aid (FTLA), on Monday told Prachatai that Nattatida Meewangpla, aka Wan, was taken from her house in Samut Prakan on 11 March. </div></div>