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Military Court grants bail to 2 lese majeste accused
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 09/07/2016
» The Military Court has granted bail to two lese majeste suspects who operated an anti-regime webpage, a month after their appeals to the Office of His Majesty's Principal Private Secretary (OHM).
Finnwatch takes heat for fruit report
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 13/07/2016
» The report alleging human rights abuses by local firm Natural Fruit Co was analysed, written, and published by NGO Finnwatch, not its hired British investigator, the NGO told a court yesterday.
NHRC chair gets flak over shackle defence
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 13/07/2016
» The National Human Rights Commission's (NHRC) chairman has come under fire following his statement regarding the use of shackles on student activists when they were taken to the Military Court last week.
Krabi Court rules in favour of villagers
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 16/07/2016
» The Krabi Provincial Court has ruled that the Agricultural Land Reform Office (Alro) did not have the authority to disperse 55 villagers as they were not dependents of a palm oil company which was previously issued with the eviction order.
Father, son convicted in mine assault case
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 01/06/2016
» The Loei Provincial Court handed down two and three-year jail sentences respectively to a father and son, both military defendants, in a high-profile attack on anti-mining villagers in 2014.
Tom Dundee confesses to lese majeste
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 31/05/2016
» Singer "Tom Dundee" pleaded guilty to committing lese majeste in the Criminal Court yesterday in what was seen as a precursory move to seek a royal pardon if he is handed a lengthy prison term.
Despite gains, China still second fiddle to West, analysts say
Asia focus, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 30/05/2016
» Thai military rule may complicate and weaken Asean's position in the international security setting, but the gestures made to date by the junta should not be seen as a shift from the western-allied camp to China, analysts caution.
' Tom Dundee' gets 7 years
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 02/06/2016
» The Criminal Court yesterday sentenced red-shirt country singer Thanat Thanawatcharanont, better known as "Tom Dundee" to seven and a half years in jail for lese majeste and computer crime offences.
Fruit firm abused migrant workers, Hall tells trial
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 03/06/2016
» Defending himself as a witness in a defamation case filed by global pineapple supplier Natural Fruit Co Ltd, British activist Andy Hall said Thursday migrant workers at the plaintiff's factory in Prachuap Khiri Khan were underaged and underpaid.
Detainees' parents lodge leniency petition with King
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 04/06/2016
» Parents of two lese majeste detainees have lodged a petition with His Majesty the King seeking leniency in order that their children secure bail.