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The arrest of prominent human rights lawyer Arnon Nampha and at least one student activist signals a dangerous escalation in the Thai government’s efforts to suppress a growing protest movement, said ARTICLE 19. The two individuals are among a group of activists sought by the police in (...)
Despite attempts at intervention at all levels by state agents, student-led protests against dictatorship have continued nationwide for a second consecutive week
Following the Free Youth protest on Saturday 18 July, young people in over 46 provinces across the nation organized protests in (...)
To protect the monarchy, the head of an ultra-royalist group has made an announcement asking volunteers to infiltrate protests and take pictures of participants. While Maj Gen Rientong pledges to “end the future” of young protesters by creating a blacklist of individuals that Thai society must (...)
An interview with Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, Thai student activist, writer and president of the Political Science Student Union of Chulalongkorn University
On July 18, thousands of Thai protesters gathered around the iconic Democracy Monument in Bangkok to call for the dissolution of their (...)
Thai people came out to protest against dictatorship because they have been through enough with the problems and injustices that occurred under Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha’s administration.
People gathered to protest at the Democracy Monument on 18 July.
Prachatai spoke to five protesters on 18 July (...)
Several thousand anti-government protesters rallied in Thailand’s capital on Saturday to call for a new constitution, new elections and an end to repressive laws.
Chanting and waving placards, the demonstrators, comprising mainly young Thais, converged on Bangkok’s iconic Democracy Monument in (...)
Adults must listen to student voices against authoritarianism in schools rather than attempt to censor them, an education expert says. All stakeholders should join in fighting the deep-rooted problems to make the students’ voices louder.
Student heads that were shaved as punishments for their (...)
The public joined the Committee Campaigning for a People’s Constitution (CCPC) on Wednesday 24 June in remembering the 1932 People’s Party’s declaration and demanding amendments to the 2017 constitution. Meanwhile, other commemorations faced difficulties from the authorities.
The participants (...)
Student demonstrations have broken out in universities across the country since the dissolution of the Future Forward Party last Friday (21 February) , as students speak out against the government both online and offline.
On Friday night (21 February), after the Constitutional Court delivered (...)
“I will promote a peaceful environment for a unified society based on love, unity and compassion so that Thai people can live with stability and happiness, and I will safeguard the dignity of the institutions of State, Religion and Monarchy which are deeply cherished by the people of Thailand” (...)
Lahore/Multan, 14 June. Sixty-three bonded labourers have been recovered from a brick kiln in Basti Pir Ismail near Multan, following a writ petition filed by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP).
In May, HRCP received a complaint from Saghar Hussain, a resident of Basti Pir Ismail, (...)
Looking beyond broad-stroke statistics, Saowanee Alexander argues that Pheu Thai victories in constituencies where its established candidates defected to the pro-junta side show the enduring loyalty of redshirts in the party’s northeastern stronghold.
It was a sunny monsoon day in October 2017, (...)
Concerned not to appear as a pawn of the regime, the Thai Constitutional Court creatively appropriated widely accepted liberal-democratic traditions of judicial reasoning to legitimise the party’s dissolution.
On 7 March 2019, Thailand’s Constitutional Court dissolved the Thai Raksa Chart party (...)
Asian Network for Free Elections says international standards were not met in recent vote
International independent observers have declared that the process of counting the votes in Thailand’s election lacked transparency and was “deeply flawed”, adding to a climate of mistrust and uncertainty in (...)
Although the results of the election on March 24, 2019 are still not officially confirmed by Thailand’s military-appointed Election Commission, the Association of Thai Democrats Without Borders would like to offer the following preliminary analysis, opinions and comments on the numbers for (...)
Headache Stencil’s work portrays Thai democracy as a game for the ruling elite
His works began appearing overnight on the streets of Bangkok and Chiang Mai five years ago, incendiary satirical depictions of the military officials who took power in Thailand in the 2014 coup.
The authorities (...)
On 14 February 2019, the Constitutional Court of Thailand accepted the request of Election Commission of Thailand (ECT) to rule on the dissolution of the Thai Raksa Chart (TRC) Party. In other words, 9 judges will decide the fate of the 2019 Thai general election.
9 judges of the (...)
Here is an easy-to-understand guide to Thai General Election 2019 - beginning with the basics, followed by selection of answers to questions we have received. Send questions you think we should answer to thammachart prachatai.com. What is the 2019 General Election?
The 2019 General Election (...)
Restrictions on political parties’ campaigning raises questions of how free and fair will much-postponed poll be
Social media campaigning will be heavily restricted in the upcoming Thai election, in a move political parties claim will gag freedom of expression and directly affect younger (...)
The EU has been accused of sending out the wrong message after removing Thailand from a list of countries failing to tackle illegal fishing.
Campaigners claim that the European commission’s decision this week to lift Thailand’s “yellow card”, in place since April 2015, gives consumers an “illusion (...)
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