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Thailand to impose security law for Thaksin protests
BANGKOK: -- A meeting of the government-appointed security monitoring committee chaired by deputy prime minister Suthep Thaugsuban today concluded to recommend to the Thai cabinet to implement the Internal Security Act (ISA) for Bangkok between March 11 through to March 23.
The recommendation follows an announcement by Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva that he had cancelled a five day trip to Australia scheduled to take place between March March 13 and 17.
Sean Boonpracong, international media spokesman for the UDD, said the implementation of the ISA will be a gross over reaction by the government and totally unwarranted.
тАЬThai people should be free to travel within their own country and while most Thais will see the implementation of the ISA as a violation of their basic human rights, they are not scared of it and will continue to travel to Bangkok for the rally.
тАЬThere has been a large number of redshirt rallies over the past 10 months and all of them have been violence free. The government is constantly dragging out the ISA in an attempt to paint a negative picture of the redshirt movement and on each occasion it has been implemented in the last 10 months there has not been a single incident to justify its implementationтАЭ, he added.
The following powers are among those which the Army Commander-in-Chief, in his capacity as the Director of ISOC, is able to exercise:
1. Take command of "state agencies" тАУ which, undefined and unlimited, may in effect mean the full civil service apparatus [Article 24];
2. Impose restrictions on freedom of movement, assembly and information [Articles 25(2), 25(3) and 25(6)];
3. Order "the use of military force" in accordance with Martial law [Article 25(8)];
4. Arrest and detain a person, on the basis of a court warrant, for seven days initially, with extensions of up to 30 days in total [Article 26(1)];
5.тАЭ SuppressтАЭ groups, individual and organizations perceived by him as posing a threat to national security [Article 26(2)];
6. Compel any person to issue statements; appear in person or hand in "any documents or evidence" [Article 26(3)];
7. Search individuals, vehicles and buildings [Articles 26(4)] тАУ while this section states that such searches must be carried out according to the Criminal Procedure Code, under the terms of which court authorisation is usually necessary, there is no clear statement in this Act that a court warrant is required;
8. Enter and search homes [Article 26(5)] тАУ the terms of this section are contradictory and appear to suggest that such searches generally do not require a court warrant;
9. Seize or freeze assets, document or other evidence [Article 26(6)]
10. Order the "training at a special location" of suspects, in lieu of pressing charges against them, for up to six months (Article 31) тАУ such training apparently requires the "consent" of the suspect, but with the threat of criminal procedures as alternative, the voluntariness of consent to such "training" is doubtful. In the absence of freely given consent, such training is therefore likely to amount to arbitrary detention.
Unless otherwise stated, none of the above provisions requires court authorisation for the powers to be exercised.
Generally speaking, ThailandтАЩs ISA gives the Director of ISOC almost limitless powers in respect to Freedom of movement, assembly, arbitrary detention, the right to fair trial procedures, and the right to privacy.
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Thailand to impose security law for Thaksin protests
BANGKOK: -- A meeting of the government-appointed security monitoring committee chaired by deputy prime minister Suthep Thaugsuban today concluded to recommend to the Thai cabinet to implement the Internal Security Act (ISA) for Bangkok between March 11 through to March 23.
The recommendation follows an announcement by Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva that he had cancelled a five day trip to Australia scheduled to take place between March March 13 and 17.
Sean Boonpracong, international media spokesman for the UDD, said the implementation of the ISA will be a gross over reaction by the government and totally unwarranted.
тАЬThai people should be free to travel within their own country and while most Thais will see the implementation of the ISA as a violation of their basic human rights, they are not scared of it and will continue to travel to Bangkok for the rally.
тАЬThere has been a large number of redshirt rallies over the past 10 months and all of them have been violence free. The government is constantly dragging out the ISA in an attempt to paint a negative picture of the redshirt movement and on each occasion it has been implemented in the last 10 months there has not been a single incident to justify its implementationтАЭ, he added.
The following powers are among those which the Army Commander-in-Chief, in his capacity as the Director of ISOC, is able to exercise:
1. Take command of "state agencies" тАУ which, undefined and unlimited, may in effect mean the full civil service apparatus [Article 24];
2. Impose restrictions on freedom of movement, assembly and information [Articles 25(2), 25(3) and 25(6)];
3. Order "the use of military force" in accordance with Martial law [Article 25(8)];
4. Arrest and detain a person, on the basis of a court warrant, for seven days initially, with extensions of up to 30 days in total [Article 26(1)];
5.тАЭ SuppressтАЭ groups, individual and organizations perceived by him as posing a threat to national security [Article 26(2)];
6. Compel any person to issue statements; appear in person or hand in "any documents or evidence" [Article 26(3)];
7. Search individuals, vehicles and buildings [Articles 26(4)] тАУ while this section states that such searches must be carried out according to the Criminal Procedure Code, under the terms of which court authorisation is usually necessary, there is no clear statement in this Act that a court warrant is required;
8. Enter and search homes [Article 26(5)] тАУ the terms of this section are contradictory and appear to suggest that such searches generally do not require a court warrant;
9. Seize or freeze assets, document or other evidence [Article 26(6)]
10. Order the "training at a special location" of suspects, in lieu of pressing charges against them, for up to six months (Article 31) тАУ such training apparently requires the "consent" of the suspect, but with the threat of criminal procedures as alternative, the voluntariness of consent to such "training" is doubtful. In the absence of freely given consent, such training is therefore likely to amount to arbitrary detention.
Unless otherwise stated, none of the above provisions requires court authorisation for the powers to be exercised.
Generally speaking, ThailandтАЩs ISA gives the Director of ISOC almost limitless powers in respect to Freedom of movement, assembly, arbitrary detention, the right to fair trial procedures, and the right to privacy.