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Saudi woman held at Bangkok airport 'fears death' if repatriated
AFP, Published on 06/01/2019
» A Saudi woman held at Bangkok airport said she would be killed if she was repatriated by Thai immigration officials, who confirmed the 18-year-old was denied entry to the country on Sunday.
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Myanmar migrants haunted by memory of tsunami missing in Thailand
AFP, Published on 21/12/2014
» BAN NAM KHEM, PHANGNGA - A decade after towering waves wrenched her newborn baby from her arms, Mi Htay remains haunted by memories of the children she lost in the tsunami whose bodies, like hundreds of other Myanmar migrants in Thailand, were never identified.
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Amnesty: Hundreds of children face protest-related charges
AFP, Published on 08/02/2023
» More than 200 children are facing serious criminal charges, including sedition, for their role in the largely peaceful pro-democracy protests that began in 2020, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.
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Saudi teen runaway leaves for Canada
AFP, Published on 12/01/2019
» OTTAWA: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Friday that Canada was taking in an 18-year-old Saudi asylum seeker who fled her family and harnessed the power of Twitter to stave off deportation from Thailand.
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Rights groups condemn police powers for soldiers
AFP, Published on 05/04/2016
» BANGKOK - An order by the military govermnent giving sweeping police powers to soldiers is part of the "steady erosion of human rights protections", campaigners said on Tuesday, calling for the law to be rescinded.
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Police defend human trafficking crackdown in fishing sector
AFP, Published on 24/01/2018
» The Royal Thai Police rejected criticism of efforts to root out human trafficking in the kingdom's multi-billion dollar seafood industry on Wednesday, following accusations that reforms had failed to check rampant labour abuses.
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Rights groups slam 25-year lese majeste sentence
AFP, Published on 01/04/2015
» Rights groups Wednesday lambasted the Military Court for jailing a businessman for 25 years for making allegedly defamatory Facebook posts about the monarchy, one of the toughest-known sentences for lese majeste.
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Phuketwan journalists acquitted in navy defamation trial
AFP, Published on 01/09/2015
» Two journalists, including an Australian editor, were found not guilty of criminal defamation by Phuket Provincial Court on Tuesday, their lawyer said, over a report implicating the Thai navy in human trafficking.
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Nestle to fight 'slave labour' in Thailand
AFP, Published on 25/11/2015
» ZURICH - Swiss food giant Nestle vowed Tuesday to stamp out any forced labour used in its supply chain in Thailand, after a probe confirmed workers were toiling in "slave-like" conditions to catch and process fish for Nestle products.
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'My heart dropped': families fear for Thais held by Hamas
AFP, Published on 10/10/2023
» The families of Thai labourers held hostage by Hamas spoke Tuesday of their fears for their safety, after the Palestinian militant group threatened to execute civilian captives in its war with Israel.
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