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Cops seek to keep 'spy' in detention
News, Surachai Piragsa, Published on 08/08/2025
» Buri Ram: Local police have sought court approval to extend the detention of a Cambodian man arrested on Tuesday in Krasang district on suspicion of espionage.
US migrant raids spark boom for private detention providers
AFP, Published on 27/07/2025
» CALIFORNIA CITY (UNITED STATES) - Donald Trump's promise to carry out the largest deportation operation in US history has appalled some Americans. But others are cashing in on the boom in demand for private detention centers.
Trump touts ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ for detainees
Published on 01/07/2025
» WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump will attend the opening on Tuesday of a remote migrant detention centre in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” as he pressures lawmakers to deliver a sweeping spending bill aimed at ramping up deportations.
Pro-Palestinian protest leader details 104 days spent in US custody
AFP, Published on 24/06/2025
» NEW YORK - Mahmoud Khalil, one of the most prominent leaders of pro-Palestinian protests on US campuses, recounted his experience surviving 104 days in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention after being targeted for deportation by the Trump administration.
Recidivist gambler released due to 'incomplete case files'
Online Reporters, Published on 18/06/2025
» The Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau (CCIB) has clarified the recent temporary release of a gambler known as "Minnie" and nine others accused of running online gambling sites and money laundering, citing incomplete case files as the reason.
Narcotics Suppression Bureau probing drug-scam financiers
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 13/06/2025
» The Narcotics Suppression Bureau (NSB) is stepping up its probe into the financial backers behind the illegal distribution of controlled substances linked to Pol Col Dr Anchulee Theerawongpaisan, a senior psychiatrist at the Police General Hospital (PGH).
Should non-medicinal weed be legal?
Oped, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 09/06/2025
» The issue of narcotics is not only a law enforcement and medical issue. It is also a historical, political and economic issue. A recurrent dilemma is whether personal, non-medical use of "weed" or cannabis (which is generally seen as a softer drug, when compared with harder drugs such as methamphetamine), should be legal. Thailand is still in the quest for a balanced answer, and this is shaped by political and economic ambivalence.
3 Cambodians arrested for illegal awning work
News, Online Reporters, Published on 20/05/2025
» Three Cambodians have been arrested in the border district of Aranyaprathet in Sa Kaeo province for illegally working as awning installation contractors without proper permits, immigration police said on Tuesday.
UN slams Venezuela’s rights record
AFP, Published on 14/05/2025
» GENEVA - UN experts on Wednesday called on Venezuela’s government to stop holding opponents and activists incommunicado, saying the practice often amounted to “enforced disappearances”.
Defending our rights is now even deadlier
Oped, Published on 09/05/2025
» The harassment, detention, torture, and eventual murder in 2006 of Anna Politkovskaya, a Russian investigative journalist who exposed government corruption, the horrors of the Second Chechen War, and the increasingly autocratic regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is the subject of a new film, Words of War.