<div> <div><strong>Thailand: Junta Leader Named Prime Minister</strong></div> <div><strong>Repression Continues Three Months After Military Coup</strong></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>AUGUST 22, 2014</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> </div> <div>(New York) – The appointment of Thailand’s junta leader as prime minister by the military-picked legislature does not advance human rights or a return to democratic rule, Human Rights Watch said today.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On August 21, 2014, the 191-member National Legislative Asse </div>

<div> <div>Contrary to what the junta has tried to claim, that all detainees have been very well treated while in custody, a student activist said he was threatened with enforced disappearance and being killed. The story also shows how the media saved him from detention.</div> <div> </div></div>