Bangkok, May 23 -- Ongoing suppression of freedom of expression, little accountability for the 2010 political violence and the internal armed conflict in the Deep South are the main human rights concerns for Thailand in the 2013 Amnesty International Annual Report.
Parinya Boonridrerthaikul, Director of Amnesty International Thailand, said at the report launch at the Royal Benja Hotel that the use of the lèse majesté law, as Article 112 of the Criminal Code is known, and the Computer Crime Act is depriving the people's right to speak. The Constitutional Court ruling that the lèse majesté law was constitutional and parliament’s refusal to consider a revised draft bill failed to make any improvement to the situation.
Sukanya Prueksakasemsuk
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