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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.
5 Sep 2007
Her new book, The Shock Doctrine, details the rise of disaster capitalism with painstaking care, showing how big business often steps in after global misery
5 Sep 2007
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that anti-coup activist Sombat Boon-ngam-anong is detained with pending charges of criminal defamation after he expressed opinions against the coup leaders. The AHRC calls for your immediate action to urge the case to be withdrawn.
3 Sep 2007
The junta and the military-installed government's over-reaction to the European Union's proposed memorandum of understanding (MoU) as a prerequisite to sending its election observers to Thailand may have won popular nationalistic support but also comes with a price and suspicion.
31 Aug 2007
BANGKOK - News reports in Thailand and the international press are saying that Google-owned YouTube has agreed to cooperate with Thai authorities in filtering sensitive content on its website, paving the way for the lifting of a Thai ban on the popular video-sharing website.
30 Aug 2007
The Asian Human Rights Commission today joins with the Asian Migrant Centre, Hong Kong, and other organisations worldwide in a global day of action to call for the repeal of the provincial decrees in Thailand against the basic rights of hundreds of thousands of migrant workers there.
28 Aug 2007
The Burmese military dictatorship may be tightening the already restricted telecommunication channels in the country to prevent information about the ongoing mass protests and arrests in Rangoon from leaking out, according to SEAPA sources.
28 Aug 2007
BANGKOK - Journalists in Rangoon are reporting a rapidly deteriorating situation for covering the sporadic protests, and brewing crisis, in Burma.
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