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Interview with Thongchai Winichakul part 1
Andrew Spooner
2012-04-05 09:20
 

To anyone interested in Thailand’s recent history and politics Dr. Thongchai Winichakul needs little introduction. A famed academic and historian, now resident in Singapore and the USA, Dr. Thongchai was a student leader during the terrible Thammasat Massacre of 1976 and spent time in prison following those events.

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Thailand: Political parties must respect human rights following elections
Amnesty International
2011-07-02 11:08
 

Thai political parties must publicly commit to respect human rights, Amnesty International said today, on the eve of the country’s first national elections in more than three years.

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Myanmar: Prison sentence reductions are not enough
Amnesty International
2011-05-18 07:12
 

The Myanmar government’s reduction of prison terms must be swiftly followed by the immediate and unconditional release of all prisoners of conscience, Amnesty International said today.

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Amnesty International in Thailand: Colluding with the state, now acting like a state
Andrew Spooner
2011-04-28 08:19
 

In the latter half of 2009, shortly after one of Thailand’s most notorious political prisoners, Daranee Chanchoengsilpakul, was sentenced to 18 years in prison under Thailand’s draconian lese majeste laws, an experienced human rights advocate contacted Amnesty International’s International Secretariat’s Thai-based researcher, Ben Zawacki. The reason for the correspondence was to try to get to the bottom of why Mr. Zawacki and Amnesty had been almost completely silent on Daranee Chanchoengsilpakul’s incarceration.

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Thailand: Trial of web forum moderator jeopardizes freedom of expression
Amnesty International
2011-02-10 01:44
 

The Thai authorities should drop all charges against human rights defender and web forum moderator Chiranuch Premchaiporn, whose trial continues this week, Amnesty International said today.

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Thailand again sullies its human rights record
Benjamin Zawacki
2011-01-07 15:06
 

Déjà vu is a French term meaning “already seen”.  Refoulement is also French, with a literal meaning of “force back”.  Upon receiving a report on Christmas day that Thai authorities had just forced back 166 refugees to Myanmar, I knew that I had seen this before—on Christmas 2009 in fact.  

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Myanmar’s 2010 Elections: A Human Rights Perspective
Benjamin Zawacki, Amnesty International
2010-05-12 07:34
 

Amnesty International Briefing

The following remarks were given by Benjamin Zawacki, Amnesty International’s Myanmar Researcher, at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) in London, on 11 May 2010.

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