16 July 2019 was marked as the beginning of the first cabinet given full authority by the 2017 Constitution. As a result, the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) was automatically withdrawn from the administrative position, giving an end to Article 44 of the Interim Constitution of 2014. However, the consequences of the coup […]
On 28 August 2019, Ms. Sarinee Achavanuntakul, writer, translator, researcher and financial expert was summoned by the Supreme Court to give a statement regarding a contempt of court charge. She is scheduled to testify in court on 9th September at 10.30am. The summon came after she wrote an opinion piece in the Krungthep Turakit newspaper […]
Under the rule of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), which has been using the ‘law’ and ‘administration of justice’ as broad political tools to suppress political movements and citizens’ freedom of expression. It seems that lawsuits against student activists and members of the general public for staging peaceful protests, are their ‘reward’ […]
On 10 August 2019, Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) held the launching of its human rights exhibition, titled ‘Never Again: Seize, Trample, Repeat, Change’ at Chiang Mai University Art Center. The exhibition aims to point out the military vulnerability through everyday items which have become case evidence such as a red plastic bowl, a […]
On 11 June 62 the Bangkok Military Court granted permission to bail Mr. Siraphop (undisclosed surname), a prisoner in a Section 112 (lèse-majesté) case with 500,000 Baht bail fee after a nearly five-year long imprisonment in a case which has been closed to the public for its entirety. Siraphop was released from the Bangkok Remand […]
This morning, Kanya and Sathien thirawut, the mother and father of “Siam Thirawut”, one of the three Thais reportedly arrested in Vietnam and deported to Thailand, went to the United Nations Building to provide additional information about their son. Yesterday, Siam’s relatives and friends sent a letter to the National Human Rights Committee, the Embassy […]
Cover photo by iLaw Yesterday (13 May 2019), the family and friends of “Siam” have gone to lodge their complaints with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), the Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the Delegation of the European Union to Thailand to ask for help to look for Siam, who was last […]
A 58-year woman was arrested by the Malaysian Police and deported back to Thailand on 10th May 2019 while waiting for refugee status from UNHCR in Malaysia. Thai Police then charged her with sedition offense and others for wearing back-shirt labeled with a federal symbol. On 10 May 2019 at approximately 17.45 hrs. Thai lawyer […]
This morning (30 April 2019), Ms.Payao Akkhahad aka ‘Mae Nong Ked’, Mr. Parit Chiwarak, aka ‘Penguin’, and Mr. Sirawith Seritiwat, aka ‘Ja New’ went on foot to Phayathai Police Station to answer to the charges pressed against them by Mr. Pinit Chanchai, a member of the Election Commission of Thailand (ECT) who has accused them […]
Ekachai Hongkangwan is a freelance writer and political activist. His activism has become prominent in the aftermath of the 2014 coup, around 2016. He has been campaigning on different issues: demanding an investigation on the failure to report assets (including 25 luxurious wristwatches) by Gen Prawit Wongsuwan, aka ‘The Rolex General’: searching for a plaque […]
It has been reported that on 10 February 2019, Andrew Johnson, an Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University, USA, claimed to have been detained by the Thai Immigration officers while departing the country. He was reportedly asked about who he had been talking with while staying in the country and where he had been. He […]
At 9 am on 12 December 2018, the Chiang Mai district court held a hearing to question witnesses in the case of holding up the “An Academic Conference is Not a Military Barracks” sign during the International Conference on Thai Studies (ICTS) on 18 July 2017. There are 5 defendants in the case who were […]
