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Re: Protests update
UN calls on Thai authorities to drop all charges against student activists
Submitted by editor1 on Fri, 22/01/2016
BANGKOK (22 January 2016) тАУ The United Nations Human Rights Office for South-East Asia (OHCHR) urges the Thai military to drop all charges against 11 student activists arrested for violating a ban on political gatherings .....(read more).....http://prachatai.org/english/node/5792? ... m=facebook
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Re: Protests update
Red shirts to vote against charter draft: Nuttawut
The Nation January 22, 2016
Red-shirt leader Nuttawut Saikuar vowed Friday to campaign for the red-shirt people to vote against the charter draft on ground that it has undemocratic provisions..... (read more)....http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakin ... 77501.html
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Re: Protests update
23 January 2016
10 Things You Might Not Want to Know About the Next Constitution
By Pravit Rojanaphruk
BANGKOK тАФ Get ready for the junta-sponsored constitution-drafting festival again. Twenty-one (mostly male, all with zero public accountability) members, appointed by junta leader Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha (also unaccountable to the public), will unveil the next draft charter Friday.
Here are some things you might not want to know about the next constitution, as it is being written:..... (read more)...http://linkis.com/khaosodenglish.com/KP4bl
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Re: Protests update
тАШUndemocratic charterтАЩ to be opposed
THE NATION January 23, 2016
Red shirts won't endorse it to hasten election: Nattawut
NUTTAWUT SAIKUAR, secretary-general of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship, stated yesterday that the red shirts would not endorse an undemocratic constitution in a referendum, even if it delayed an election.
Meanwhile, Constitution Draft-ing Commission (CDC) spokesman Udom Rathamarit said opponents had the right to express their sentiments.
Nuttawut claimed that the current draft was far worse than the previous unsuccessful one, saying it would not be very hard to make a decision about it.....(read more).....http://www.nationmultimedia.com/politic ... 77537.html
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Re: Protests update
Pro-democracy student activist abducted
Submitted by editor2 on Mon, 25/01/2016
Not one week after Sirawit Serithiwat, a well known pro-democracy activist, was abducted by military officers and reportedly abused under custody, another student activist has been abducted.
According to Resistant Citizen, an anti-junta facebook group, at 10:30 am, people believed to be military officers in plainclothes have abducted Chakkraponh Ponhlaoar, aka. Kankan, member of VillagersтАЩ Children, a pro-democracy student activist group based in Burapha University of the eastern province of Chonburi.....(read more)....http://prachatai.org/english/node/5796
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Re: Protests update
THE RED SHIRTS TODAY
JANUARY 24, 2016 UGLYTRUTHTHAILAND
Giles Ji Ungpakorn
A recent article at the end of last year in the web-newspaper тАЬPrachataiтАЭ discusses the state of the red shirt movement under the military dictatorship in the north-east and north of the country. It is based on interviews with local activists. All the activists have been visited repeatedly by military officers. People have been taken to military camps for тАЬattitude changingтАЭ sessions and some have been ordered to report to the military on a weekly basis. Naturally this has not been the general fate of most yellow shirt royalists or any supporters of SutepтАЩs mob.
While many red shirt activists still support Taksin, they stress..... (read more).....https://uglytruththailand.wordpress.com ... rts-today/
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Re: Protests update
Sasiwan Mokkhasen
25 January 2016
Social Media Surveillance System Planned
BANGKOK тАФ The Royal Thai Police plan to spend 12 million baht on a system to monitor messages and track users on the most popular social media platforms.
A company is being sought to provide software, hardware and training courses for such a system to be used to monitor public posts on Facebook, Twitter and Pantip, the kingdomтАЩs biggest message board, according to procurement documents, which said it is intended to suppress increasing online crime...... (read more)......http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.ph ... 06§ion
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Re: Protests update
Future unclear if charter fails
KASAMAKORN CHANWANPEN,
WASAMON AUDJARINT
THE NATION January 26, 2016
Interim constitution could stay in force, Meechai says; spurring fear over article 44.
CONCERN HAS increased with the likelihood that the post-coup interim charter will be in place longer if the new draft constitution fails to pass a national referendum.
Constitution Drafting Commission (CDC) chairman Meechai Ruchupan said yesterday that the current charter would stay in place if the new draft charter were rejected by the public..... (read more).....http://www.nationmultimedia.com/politic ... 77721.html
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Re: Protests update
26 January 2016
Junta Quashes Labor Movement Despite Role in 2014 Protests
By Pravit Rojanaphruk
BANGKOK тАФ Earlier this month, veteran labor leader Wilaiwan Sae-tia traveled to Bangkok to lend her support to auto parts factory workers from Rayong province. It was routine for the 60-year-old chairwoman of what is arguably the kingdomтАЩs most influential labor group; the kind of thing sheтАЩs done many times in four decades with the movement.
This time, however, she paid a price for advocating for the workers of.... (read more)....http://linkis.com/khaosodenglish.com/jKZOJ
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Re: Protests update
Thai junta leader says Amnesty International encourages law breakers
Submitted by editor2 on Tue, 26/01/2016
The Thai junta leader has scolded Amnesty InternationalтАЩs campaign for Thai political dissidents, saying that the organization encourages people who have violated the law.
After the abduction of Sirawit Serithiwat, a pro-democracy student activist leader, last week, Amnesty International (AI) started a campaign calling on its members to send letters to Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, the junta leader and Prime Minister, and Don Pramudwinai, Minister of Foreign Affairs, to demand that the regime drop charges against Sirawit and other dissidents.
According to the Thai News Agency, yesterday, 25 January 2016, the junta leader said in response to the AI campaign that certain human rights organizations were ill-informed about the situation in Thailand and got their information from distorted media reports..... (read more).....http://prachatai.org/english/node/5801