Prayuth Chan-ocha

Thailand’s military Prime Minister General Prayuth Chan-Ocha has raged at the Thai media after a story in the Daily Mirror (London) described the Thai resort as the ‘world’s sex capital’. And he told local media in Thailand not to highlight the issue due to ‘risk of tarnishing the country’s image’ reported Prachathai News in Bangkok. […]

‘Reporters without Borders today publishes a scathing attack by Thailand’s military leader Prayuth Chan-Ocha whom the report describes as an ‘eccentric megalomaniac’.  Led by Gen. Prayuth Chan-o-cha, the Thai junta has been persecuting the media for the past 18 months, imposing a reign of terror that has included interrogations, arbitrary arrests, a spate of prosecutions […]

HUMAN RIGHTS COMEDY IN THAILAND CONTINUES –  Human Rights Watch is not surprisingly up in arms against the proposed constitution of the Thai National Human Rights Commission, one of which is a notorious supporter of the lèse majesté laws under which anybody can be locked up for saying something which somebody not the King believes is […]

Human Rights Watch today called for charges to be dropped against critics who were charged yesterday for violating the ban on criminal activity after being arrested on February for holding a mock election at the Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre on February 14th. The four will face the Bangkok Military Court in what HRW described as a ‘rolling […]

THAI GOVERNMENT SENSITIVE.  POLICE KEEP SHTUM MEDIA AND SOCIAL MEDIA UNDER THREAT The Burmese Government today made an official request to Thailand to open a new investigation into the murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the holiday island of Koh Tao – after police point blank refused to answer allegations of torture. The […]