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Re: Protests update
Thailand: immediately drop sedition case and all proceedings against human rights lawyer Sirikan Charoensiri
Oct 3, 2016
The government should drop all proceedings against human rights lawyer, Sirikan Charoensiri, including the specious accusation of sedition, which apparently relate to her organization’s representation of 14 student activists peacefully protesting in June 2015, the ICJ and other groups said TODAY... (read more)... http://www.icj.org/thailand-immediat...n-charoensiri/
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Oct 4, 2016
Thailand bars Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong, apparently at China's request
A teenage Hong Kong student leader who helped organize massive pro-democracy protests in the Chinese-ruled city in 2014 was detained on arrival in Thailand on Wednesday and barred entry, immigration officials and supporters said, apparently at China's request.
Joshua Wong had been due to speak at an event on the anniversary of a Thai military crackdown on student protests 40 years ago, organizers said.... (read more)... http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ho...-idUSKCN125025
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Police deny Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong travelled to Thailand
The Nation October 5, 2016
Immigration Bureau chief Pol Lt-General Natthon Phrosunthon on Wednesday said he had no reports about Hong Kong democracy campaigner Joshua Wong being barred from entering Thailand.
"From our reports, the person [appearing in the news] was not on the list of passengers travelling to Thailand," he told reporter at 11am.
Wong, 20, arrived at Suvarnabhumi Airport late on Tuesday and was denied entry by immigration, according to Thai activist Netiwit Chotiphaisal.... (read more)... http://www.nationmultimedia.com/brea...-30296921.html
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Chulalongkorn students protest against Joshua Wong’s detention
Submitted by editor4 on Wed, 05/10/2016
A group of students has staged a small protest demanding the junta to sent the student activist Joshua Wong back to Hong Kong safely. The prominent activist is expected to arrive in Hong Kong this afternoon....(read more)... http://prachatai.org/english/node/6624
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Wong saga backfires on regime
Regime 'caves to China's every whim'
6 Oct 2016
The 12-hour detention of well-known Hong...
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'He just flew over’: Thai junta head responds to Joshua Wong’s detention
Submitted by editor4 on Wed, 05/10/2016
The junta head has said that pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong was not detained by the Thai authorities, but was rather just ‘flying over’ Thailand, adding that there is no difference between sending the activist to Hong Kong or Mainland China since both are the same country.... (read more)... http://prachatai.org/english/node/6625
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Time Magazine
Thailand Is Marking the Darkest Day in Its Living Memory
Feliz Solomon
Read....
http://time.com/4519367/thailand-ban.../?xid=tcoshare
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OCTOBER 6 ANNIVERSARY
Survivor calls for military withdrawal
WASAMON AUDJARINT
THE NATION October 7, 2016
A SURVIVOR of the 1976 Thammasat University massacre said yesterday that only a military withdrawal from politics could save Thailand from division and never-ending conflict....(read more)... http://www.nationmultimedia.com/poli...-30297088.html
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Thai university commemorates 40th anniversary of massacre
By Asian Correspondent Staff | 6th October 2016
“The incident has relevance to the current state of Thai politics because it becomes possible to continue to stage coup after coup while repressing dissent because those who have done so in the past have not been held to account for doing so,”... (read more)... https://asiancorrespondent.com/2016/...sary-massacre/
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Oct 7, 2016
Thai junta under scrutiny amid allegations of exorbitant spending, nepotism
By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Panarat Thepgumpanat
Thailand's junta came under scrutiny this week after critics filed a petition asking the office of the auditor-general to investigate allegations of extravagant spending on a trip to Hawaii for a defense meeting.... (read more)... http://www.reuters.com/article/us-th...+World+News%29