{"id":5430,"date":"2024-11-25T10:58:27","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T03:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/?p=5430"},"modified":"2024-11-25T10:58:27","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T03:58:27","slug":"thailand-dissolution-of-move-forward-party-an-untenable-decision-that-stifles-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/news\/2024\/11\/thailand-dissolution-of-move-forward-party-an-untenable-decision-that-stifles-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand: Dissolution of Move Forward Party an ‘untenable decision’ that stifles human rights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Responding to the news that Thailand\u2019s Constitutional Court has ruled in support of the Election Commission of Thailand\u2019s (ECT) request to dissolve the Move Forward Party (MFP) due to their campaign to reform the l\u00e8se-majest\u00e9 law, Deprose Muchena<\/strong>, Senior Director at Amnesty International said:<\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cThe Constitutional Court\u2019s ruling in favour of dissolving the Move Forward Party is an untenable decision that reveals the authorities\u2019 complete disregard for Thailand\u2019s international human rights obligations.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n

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Background<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On 7 August 2024, Thailand\u2019s Constitutional Court delivered a ruling on the petition submitted by the ECT, resulting in the dissolution of the MFP. Executives of the MFP \u2014 Thailand\u2019s biggest political opposition party \u2014 now face a ten-year ban on running for office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ECT alleged in its petition that the MFP attempted to overthrow the monarchy, thus violating Article 92 of the 2017 Organic Act on Political Parties. This allegation stemmed from the MFP\u2019s campaign to reform the l\u00e8se-majest\u00e9 law under Article 112 of the Thai Criminal Code to prevent its misuse, namely in stifling dissenting voices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the 2014 military coup in Thailand, Amnesty International found<\/a> that the l\u00e8se-majest\u00e9 law has been widely used to criminalize peaceful activism and consistently called for the Thai government to bring it in line with international law. Amnesty International has previously documented the dissolution of political opposition parties in Thailand, including the Thai Raksa Chart Party in 2019<\/a>, and Future Forward Party in 2020<\/a> and condemned these moves as a violation of the right to freedom of expression and association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Thailand\u2019s General Election in May 2023, the MFP, gained 151 out of 500 seats in the parliament\u2019s lower house \u2013 the highest number of seats among all political parties. However, the party could not form a government, as it did not receive sufficient votes from military-appointed senates in the upper house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amnesty International is a non-partisan organization that does not take sides in political disputes and adheres strictly to its mission as a human rights organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Responding to the news that Thailand\u2019s Constitutional Court has ruled in support of the Election Commission of Thailand\u2019s (ECT) request to dissolve the Move Forward Party (MFP) due to their campaign to reform the l\u00e8se-majest\u00e9 law, Deprose Muchena, Senior Director at Amnesty International said: Background On 7 August 2024, Thailand\u2019s Constitutional Court delivered a ruling on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-title":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-description":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-image":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-image-id":0,"_yoast_wpseo_twitter-title":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-description":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-image":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-image-id":0,"_hero_title":"","_hero_content":"","_hero_cta_text":"","_hero_cta_link":"","_hero_alignment":"","_hero_background":"","_hero_size":"","_hero_show":"","_hero_type":"","_hero_embed":"","_hero_video_id":0,"_hero_hide_image_caption":true,"_hero_hide_image_copyright":false,"_nav_style":"","_disable_share_icons":false,"_disable_sidebar":false,"_display_author_info":false,"_hide_featured_image":false,"_hide_featured_image_caption":true,"_maximize_post_content":false,"_reduce_content_width":false,"_sidebar_id":0,"_stretch_thumbnail":false,"byline_context":"","byline_entity":"","byline_is_author":false,"disable_related_content":false,"download_id":0,"download_text":"","show_published_date":true,"show_updated_date":true,"term_slider":"","amnesty_index_number":"","recipients":"","recipients_refresh":"","recipients_refreshed":"","amnesty_umbraco_data":"","document_ref":"","amnesty_updated":"","footnotes":""},"category":[1585],"location":[],"resourceType":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-5430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"datePosted":"November 25, 2024","mlpRelationships":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category?post=5430"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=5430"},{"taxonomy":"resource-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resourceType?post=5430"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}