NCPO again blocks FCCT forum on post-coup rights
4 Jun 2015
WRITER: ONLINE REPORTERS AND AFP
Police meet with members of the Foreign CorrespondentsтАЩ Club of Thailand, issuing letter asking for тАЬcooperationтАЭ in agreeing to cancel tonightтАЩs planned forum on human rights since the coup.
A forum on human rights in post-coup Thailand scheduled for tonight at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand has been shut down by the junta before it even began.
The Thai Lawyers for Human Rights planned to use the FCCT to hold a meeting in conjunction with its release of a report assessing the human-rights situation over the year since the 2014 coup.
But the FCCT posted on its website that the event, which was sponsored by the TLHR, had been cancelled. It is the second time a rights forum planned by the group has been blocked...... (read more)....
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