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Activist celebrates rights award ... in jail
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 18/05/2017
» As our dear military government busily prepares itself to boast next Monday about its achievements during the past three years on the anniversary of its seizing power, the parents of jailed student activist Jatupat "Pai Dao Din" Boonpattararaksa will today pick up the prestigious 2017 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights award on behalf of their son in South Korea.
PM has put his reputation on trial
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 29/05/2017
» As well as being a sign of potentially worse things to come, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's posing of four leading questions last Friday was an act that perfectly demonstrated his unchecked egoism.
Govt 'victories' become our nightmares
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 27/05/2017
» Being overly critical of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) may not help if you want to be in a state of sanity while gauging its three-year performance and trying to understand why the regime and its cheerleaders still think it has done a great job and should prolong its stay in power.
Petty drug users should not be pariahs
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 17/03/2017
» After losing her final court battle on Wednesday, former model Chachchaya "Yuyee" Cuesta Ramos will spend the next 15 years in a cell for possessing and smuggling 251 milligrammes of cocaine into the country -- a charge she has denied.
Army needs to prove it's not above the law
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 05/04/2017
» A young man was tortured to death for failing to show up for work last week.
Chaiyapoom case deserves truth, justice
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 22/03/2017
» A short-film producer, a song writer and an advocate of the rights of stateless people, Chaiyapoom Pasae was still an adolescent when he was killed by a soldier in Chiang Mai last Friday aged 17. But security officers described him as a suspected armed, illicit drug trafficker, and said that his extra-judicial killing was an act of "self-defence and unavoidable".
Being rich is still the best defence of all
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 29/03/2017
» As I was preparing to leave home yesterday morning to meet a group of poor and landless people at a forum and hear their stories of injustice, the Associated Press was reporting a story on the Red Bull heir, who hit a policeman with his car. The headline was "'Red Bull killer' found living the good life".
Regime must open up, this Valentine's
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 14/02/2017
» Today, the government is making the best out of Valentine's Day. It will kick off a mission to forge, and force, love and unity upon those who are part of the decade-long political divide. To heal the pain, bridge the differences and move on, the regime has unsurprisingly resorted to a top-down military style of work.
Old transport laws taking us for a ride
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 08/03/2017
» No sooner did Chiang Mai residents and visitors think they had better taxi options than authorities and those giving "worse choices" try to tear these services away from them.
'Heroes' must stick to their principles
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 22/02/2017
» At a time when "people from the same camp" broke a principle he said he once believed in, Wanchai Sornsiri, a member of the National Reform Steering Assembly, seems to believe that silence is golden.