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22 Sep 2007
Anti-coup activist Chotisak Onsueng and a female companion were attacked and verbally abused after they refused to stand up for the Royal anthem at a Bangkok cinema on Thursday night.
21 Sep 2007
Despite being exiled 10,000km away in London, the deposed PM is key to the struggle for power
20 Sep 2007
(New York, September 18, 2007) - One year after a military coup that ousted the elected government of Thaksin Shinawatra, Thailand's military-installed government has taken few steps to keep its promises to protect human rights, Human Rights Watch said today. Prospects for the return to an elected government through free and fair elections remain uncertain.
19 Sep 2007
One year ago today I was in New York , preparing to address the United Nations General Assembly on behalf of my nation. I was filled with pride as I looked forward to delivering my remarks.
19 Sep 2007
Tomorrow marks one year since the coup that ousted the abusive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
19 Sep 2007
However the military coup of Sept 19 is assessed on its first anniversary, a passing grade is hard to come
19 Sep 2007
On 27 September 2006, eight days after the coup that has dragged Thailand back to the dark days of military intervention into all areas of political and social life, the country's ambassador to the United Nations told the General Assembly that "we can well expect that one of the first tasks of the new civilian government will be to do away with martial law".
17 Sep 2007
One year after the coup in Thailand, a new Constitution is in place, elections are on the horizon and Thais are looking forward to normalising the overall political climate in the Kingdom. The media and free expression environment, however, remains compromised, with martial law, lèse-majesté rules, and new and proposed laws governing the Internet and national security concerns keeping the media footing problematic in the foreseeable future.
15 Sep 2007
Many people have expressed genuine concern about the expanded role of the judiciary under Thailand's new army-backed constitution, which was pushed through a referendum and passed into law this August. 
13 Sep 2007
On 31 August 2007 the Court of Appeal in Thailand upheld the decision of a lower court that a group of persons had in 2002 been exercising their legal rights under the abrogated 1997 Constitution when they went to protest about a gas pipeline project on the border with Malaysia, leading to clashes with the police. The court agreed with the lower court that the protestors had simply been exercising their constitutional rights to assemble and participate in decision making on natural resources, and that there was no evidence that they were responsible for the violence that had ensued.
13 Sep 2007
When Karl Marx prophesied 150 years ago that "history repeats itself," he wasn't talking about human rights abuses in Asia. But today his words resonate as we face a nearly identical repeat of Southeast Asia's most unconscionable "development" project, right next door in Burma. And the Petroleum Authority of Thailand (PTT) is again poised to be complicit in human rights abuses.
6 Sep 2007
Net surfers have sought a Thai government explanation over a report in the Financial Times about the arrest of two Thais for alleged offensive comments about the monarchy on an Internet chat room.

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