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Women's prison orders activist body search probe
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 14/05/2016
» A women's prison in Bangkok has ordered a probe into the alleged maltreatment of a female student activist and promised to introduce bio-body scan equipment at women's prisons within three months, a senior official said on Friday.
Isan offers no easy path for CDC draft
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 16/05/2016
» NORTHEAST: Two years after the coup, urban middle-class voters and rural residents in the country's Northeast, the biggest stronghold of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, remain split on whether the junta-commissioned draft charter should be passed at the August referendum.
Briton's abuse claims based on 'false' info
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 20/05/2016
» British labour activist Andy Hall supplied false information about abuses at an export company to a Finnish civil rights group, Finnwatch, a prosecution witness in a defamation lawsuit claimed yesterday.
Activists donate bras behind bars
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 21/05/2016
» Labour activists donated thousands of underwear items on Friday to a female prison as a goodwill gesture welcoming gradual positive changes in the institution.
Detained poet blasts military regime
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 24/05/2016
» A poet is continuing to challenge the regime in a military court, almost two years after being arrested, calling the coup-makers possible traitors.
Disabled rights in line for Asean boost, says expert
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 23/05/2016
» The Thai representative on the Asean human rights body has pledged to accelerate work on people with disabilities during his second term after he was reappointed quietly by the Foreign Ministry.
Political prisoners to get more help
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 26/05/2016
» Activists have set up a group to provide financial support to "political" prisoners as signs of repression have yet to subside two years since the coup.
Look at big picture on rights, regime urges
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 16/03/2016
» Thailand is lobbying other United Nations (UN) members to focus on the overall improvement of its human rights record rather than problematic areas such as freedom of expression and assembly, a forum to update progress on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) was told.
Terrifying hospital attack raises rights concerns
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 18/03/2016
» The military has assured the public the army will never resort to underground operations that could have dire effects on innocent people following a siege at a hospital in Narathiwat on Sunday.
Shut Muslim school plans fundraiser
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 19/03/2016
» The family in the deep South that owns a Muslim boarding school closed down by a court order due to insurgency links is holding a fund-raising event today.