<div> <p>Despite threats and intimidation from state authorities, Pornpen Khongkachonkiet, a human rights lawyer and director of the Cross Cultural Foundation (CrCF) of Thailand, stands firm on her claims about alleged torture and enforced disappearances committed by the Thai authorities in the restive Deep South of Thailand.</p> </div>

<div>Hundreds of arbitrary detentions, reports of torture and other ill-treatment, sweeping restrictions on freedom of expression and peaceful assembly and unfair trials in military courts are creating a climate of fear in Thailand, and there are no signs of a let-up, Amnesty International said today in a new report.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The report, Attitude adjustment –100 days under Martial Law, is the first comprehensive investigation into Thailand’s human rights situation since the military imposed Martial Law on 20 May 2014 and seized power two days later.</div> <div>&nbsp; </div>

<div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>During the hundred days since the military coup in May, 571 people have been summoned by the junta. Of this number, 14 were tortured and ill-treated during military detention, Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) reported on Monday.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>According to the report, 14 people were allegedly tortured physically and psychologically by the army. Ex-detainees reported that they were beaten and electrocuted. </div></div>

<p>It’s not listed in any of the human rights documents that the UN comes out with but let’s credit Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha with the Right to Ignorance.</p> <p>So they arrest this Kritsuda woman on 27 May under martial law.&nbsp; After 7 days she fails to re-emerge, no one knows where she is, and then on 17 June her name appears on one of the NCPO’s ‘see me in my office tomorrow morning or else’ lists.&nbsp; This was a bit perplexing since as far as anyone knew, she was still in the custody of the military.&nbsp; How can you report to them when they’re holding you incommunicado?&nbsp;</p>

<div>9 August 2014</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span>In two video clips released to the public on 2 and 3 August 2014, Kritsuda Khunasaen, who was arbitrarily detained by the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), detailed her experience while in detention. She described a range of forms of both mental and physical torture. </span></div>

<div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Thailand’s Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT) has blocked access to two Prachatai English news stories on the alleged torture of red-shirt activist Kritsuda Khunasen, without giving any explanation to the online news outlet. </div>

<div> <div>05 August 2014</div> <div><strong>Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights </strong>: Ravina Shamdasani</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><strong>Location:</strong> Geneva</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><strong>Subject: </strong>Thailand</div> </div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>We have been very concerned by the methods of arrest and detention of politicians, activists, academics and journalists following the military coup in Thailand in May this year.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Since 22 May 2014, more than 700 individuals have been summoned and arreste </div>

<div><strong>Thailand: Investigate Alleged Torture of Activist</strong></div> <div> <div><strong>Junta Dismissive of Kritsuda Khunasen’s Allegations</strong></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>AUGUST 5, 2014</div> </div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Thai authorities should immediately and impartially investigate the alleged torture of an opposition activist in military custody, Human Rights Watch said today. </div>

<div>&nbsp;</div> <div> <div>Kritsuda Khunasen, the red-shirt activist who was illegally detained by the junta, said in her latest video clip that the military gave her paracetamol and anti-inflammatory drugs to remove the traces of torture. </div></div>

<div>&nbsp;</div> <div> <div>A junta spokesman on Sunday denied the allegations by red-shirt activist Kritsuda Khunasen that the military tortured her during her illegal detention and forced her to lie on TV that she was happy, insisting that her happiness was real, according to Matichon Online.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Col Winthai Suvaree, spokesman for the junta’s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), said he was “surprised” by what the red-shirt activist said during an interview with Jom Petchpradab, a veteran independent journalist, published on YouTube and released on Saturda </div></div>

<div>&nbsp;</div> <div> <div>Red-shirt activist Kritsuda Khunasen has revealed that when she was illegally detained by the junta, she was suffocated and physically assaulted. The torture was aimed at forcing her to link former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to hard core red-shirt groups, according to Kritsuda.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>In late June, Kritsuda was the focus of media and human rights organizations’ attention because during her detention, no one was able to contact her and it was not known where she was detained. </div></div>

<div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Contrary to what the junta has tried to claim, that all detainees were treated very well while in their custody, other than being deprived of their freedom, the first account of degrading treatment of anti-coup protesters by the military has been revealed.</div> <div> </div>