Responding to the news that child human rights defender Thanakorn “Petch” was convicted of lèse majesté for participating in a peaceful protest when they were 17 years old and sentenced to a maximum of three years of detention in a training centre, Amnesty International Thailand executive director Piyanut Kotsan said:
Reading the news can be really depressing. Sometimes there seems to be so much wrong in the world, the idea of changing it for the better feels impossible. But as Amnesty International’s Write for Rights campaign shows, you can make a big difference by doing something “little”.
Thai authorities should drop charges against child protesters after they took part in mass demonstrations between 2020 and 2022, Amnesty International said today, in the lead-up to World Children’s Day on 20 November.
Responding to use of force by the Thai crowd control police to suppress the protests led by the Ratsadon Stops APEC 2022 on Dinso Road on 18 November, which has led to at least nine injuries among the participants and four reporters and 25 participants were arrested and taken to the Thung Song Hong Police Station, which was not the police station of jurisdiction, and the police stated that at least five crowd control police officers got injured;
Amnesty International Thailand today submitted signatures and calls to Prime Minister Gen. Prayut Chan-O-Cha via his representative, Nalinee Mahakhun, Director of Public Service Center urging the Thai government as the APEC 2022’s host country to take a crucial role in facilitating discussions with its member countries to end bloody crackdown in Myanmar and show solidarity to the people of Myanmar.
8 November 2022
The international community must urgently prevent shipments of aviation fuel from reaching the Myanmar military, Amnesty International said today, as it published an investigation into the companies involved in the supply chain, as well as shocking new accounts of deadly air strikes on civilians.
10 October marks the World Day against the Death Penalty which has been declared to raise the awareness about death penalty and how it violates basic human rights. The World Day against the Death Penalty was adopted by various organizations which attended a meeting in Rome, Italy in 2000. They have decided to declare 10 October every year as a day of global action to demand an end of death penalty, to raise the awareness of the negative impact of such punishment and to call on countries around the world to sign the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) aiming at the abolition of death penalty. Although Thailand is a signatory of ICCPR since 29 October 1996 and which became effective since 29 January 1997, it has yet to sign the Optional Protocol.
Facebook owner Meta’s dangerous algorithms and reckless pursuit of profit substantially contributed to the atrocities perpetrated by the Myanmar military against the Rohingya people in 2017, Amnesty International said in a new report published today.
Responding to the conviction and sentencing to two years’ imprisonment of protester Jatuphon “Niw” Saeung for participating in a mock fashion show in Thailand in October 2020, Amnesty International’s Deputy Secretary General Kyle Ward said:
On the occasion of International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and Amnesty International consider the adoption of the long-delayed legislation on torture, ill-treatment and enforced disappearance bill to constitute an important step toward the prevention and redress of these crimes. The organizations regret, however, that deficiencies in some provisions mean that it will fall short of becoming a fully effective legal instrument.
Ahead of an appeal hearing on Thursday for Pham Doan Trang, an independent journalist and human rights defender who was sentenced on propaganda charges to nine years imprisonment in December 2021, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for Research Emerlynne Gil said: