<p>Activists who have been charged for trespassing the National Legislative Assembly in 2007 and their lawyers wish to invite observers from human rights and media rights organisations and representatives from foreign embassies in Thailand to attend the trial to help ensure that they receive a fair hearing, as they believe that the charges against them and the possible penalties that they face are grossly disproportionate to their non-violent actions of civil disobedience against a legislature appointed by a military junta which was rushing through legislation affecting human rights and civil </p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammar_Siamwalla">Dr Ammar Siamwalla</a>, economist and former Chairperson of the Thailand Development Research Institute, suggests that limits be placed on Article 112.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p>
By Pong Pan |
<p>BANGKOK: The Malaysian opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim, predicts the 13th General Election in Malaysia to be held sooner than expected.</p>
<p>A yellow shirt in northeastern Roi Et province has been enjoying a spree of filing lèse majesté complaints against Prachatai readers and contributors in the last few years, and a local police officer has been invited to provide information regarding the complaints to the National Human Rights Commission’s Subcommittee on Civil and Political Rights.</p>
<p>On 13 Feb, the court hearing in Somyot Prueksakasemsuk’s case in Songkhla had to be cancelled as the fourth and last prosecution witness, who lives in Pathum Thani, near Bangkok, did not show up in court.</p>
<p>On10 Feb, 19-year-old first-year Thammasat student Kan Thoop (her cyber nickname) learned from reporters that police at Bang Khen Police Station had indefinitely postponed her summons regarding alleged lèse majesté offenses, scheduled for 11 Feb, and the police might decide not to prosecute her.</p>
By Suluck Lamubol |
<p class="rteleft">“Tai” or Panitan Prueksakasemsuk, only son of Somyot Pruksakasemsuk and a second year student at the Faculty of Law, Thammasat University, announced last month he would go on a 112-hour hunger strike in front of the Criminal Court, lasting from February 11 to February 16, to call on the judges to “free my Dad.”</p>
<p>The US has been behind all the political turmoil in Thailand, including violence in the south, coups, the burning of the country, etc., to create instability so that it can install its military bases to block China’s influence, said Dr Thianchai Wongchaisuwan, a self-styled analyst of global trends and a staunch supporter of the People’s Alliance for Democracy.</p>
<p>A group of students and alumni of Mahasarakham University has been refused permission to use a room in the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts to hold a public forum to discuss Article 112 of the Criminal Code.</p>
By Free Thammasat Group for Democracy |
<p><strong>Update: Panitan will go on a hunger strike for 112 hours at the Criminal Court on Ratchadapisek Rd on Saturday 11, starting from 4pm.</strong></p>
<p>Panitan Prueksakasemsuk, the son of well-known labour activist Somyot who has been incarcerated on lèse majesté charges since late April 2011, has announced he will go on a hunger strike for 112 hours in protest at his father’s ordeal.</p>
<p>Pravit Rojanaphruk interviews Robert Amsterdam, lawyer for the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship, in Prachatai's 'Core Respondence' TV programme.</p>
By Free Thammasat Group for Democracy |
<p><a href="http://www.prachatai.com/english/node/2973">Kan Thoop</a> will report to police on lèse majesté charges on Saturday 11 Feb, after having postponed twice since late last year due to the floods and university exams.</p>