Thailand

AND WE DID NOT ENFORCE LICENSING LAWS A Thai police chief has blamed the rape of a British woman on holiday in Thailand on the fact that she was drunk – and said his men would take more care now to enforce licensing hours. The 24-year-woman was raped at the end of last week after […]

Thailand’s increasingly paranoaic military led government is now being accused of operating ‘enforced disappearances’ a technique used widely in the past in South American banana republics.  The following is a statement issued today by Thai Lawyers for Human Rights. ——————————- Statement on Enforced Disappearance and Detention in Temporary Remand Facility in Military Camp: The case […]

NO BAIL TO APPEAL GRANTED TO SCOTTISH CONMAN WITH THAI LAW OFFICE! A Scottish con man who posed as a barrister, and former officer in the Royal Marines to cheat an elderly lady out of 7.8 million baht (just under US$218,000) was sent straight to jail without being given bail to appeal today. Having been […]

BRIAN GOUDIE’S DAY OF RECKONING LOOMS Brian Goldie, who resurfaced in Thailand posing as a barrister and former officer in the Royal Marines after a six year jail sentence for theft in Australia, is due to face judgment tomorrow for posing as a lawyer to cheat a 78-year-old American woman out of 7.8 million Thai […]

INTO THE MOUTH OF THE CROCODILE As the Thai military led government tightens its grip on the throat of the media in the country it has now arrested and is in the processing of re-educating Nation columnist Pravit Rojanaphruk. The former Chevening scholar, Reuters Fellow at the University of the Philippines and son of a […]

MAN WHO RECORDS SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT DECISIONS ORDERED TO DO SO FROM PATTAYA CONDO COURTS GONE MAD PART I A threesome goes wrong in sex city Flying Sporran in the courts The following is essentially a real account although there is no verbatim record and comes from the defence in a case in Pattaya – […]

BURMESE MINISTER DECLARES WAR ON LADYBOYS – HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH CONDEMNS. Human Rights Watch has condemned ‘grossly discriminatory’ remarks made against lady boys and gays by the Burma’s Minister for Border and Security Affairs. The attack comes after Dr.Myint Kyu called for the rounding up of gay men saying ‘the existence of gay men who […]

BROTHER-IN-LAW ‘BROKE KNEE CAPS FOR THE MAFIA’ The offer of a US$5000 reward this week for information about the death of American serviceman and Iraq veteran Josh Devine in the Andaman Sea in April comes as the family back home fails to get any closure on the mystery. Joshua Devine, 36, a ‘Soldier of the […]

The following message has been received from Jesse Vard on behalf of her father. Its early days and they family seem now more confident that at least some heads will role. They remain however in some contempt for the Irish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Irish Consulate in Bangkok. Children’s author and former […]

The Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand has been ordered by the government not to allow its premises to be used for a presentation by human rights lawyers tonight. A short statement issued from the club stated: “The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand regrets to announce that the scheduled event for tonight, the launch of the […]