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Thailand: Activists criminalised including in the Deep South while Move Forward party faces disbandment
- Published at
- 20.03.2024
- Country
- Thailand
- Category
- Latest Developments
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- positive court ruling
- LGBTI
- women
- minority groups
- transnational repression
- harassment
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- enforced disappearance
- restrictive law
- HRD acquitted
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
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Thailand: New government continues to criminalise activists for royal defamation and prosecute protesters
- Published at
- 31.10.2023
- Country
- Thailand
- Category
- Latest Developments
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- positive court ruling
- youth
- women
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
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Thailand: Relentless prosecutions for lese-majesté as National Assembly blocks winning party from forming government
- Published at
- 11.08.2023
- Country
- Thailand
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- youth
- women
- surveillance
- HRD killing
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- criminal defamation
- protest
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
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Thailand: Activists prosecuted for royal defamation, face travel restrictions while child protesters targeted
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- 19.04.2023
- Country
- Thailand
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- refugees and migrants
- harassment
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- surveillance
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Protesters continue to face prosecution and excessive force while activists criminalised for royal defamation in Thailand
- Published at
- 15.12.2022
- Country
- Thailand
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- time,place restrictions
- harassment
- surveillance
- attack on journalist
- protestor(s) detained
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- torture/ill-treatment
- LGBTI
- protest disruption
- women
- youth
- restrictive law
- HRD prosecuted
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Activists criminalised for royal defamation and targeted by spyware in Thailand
- Published at
- 22.08.2022
- Country
- Thailand
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- negative court ruling
- protest
- criminal defamation
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened
- youth
- protest disruption
- women
- surveillance
- HRD detained
- HRD prosecuted
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Despite UN review, Thai government continues to silence dissent, push restrictive NGO bill
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- 04.04.2022
- Country
- Thailand
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- torture/ill-treatment
- women
- labour rights
- restrictive law
- public vilification
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights
- positive court ruling
- protest disruption
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Thai activists and protesters face judicial harassment, excessive force despite upcoming UN review
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- 03.11.2021
- Country
- Thailand
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
- youth
- protest disruption
- women
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- protest
- HRD prosecuted
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Civil society alarmed by rise of lese majeste cases and proposed NGO law in Thailand
- Published at
- 16.07.2021
- Country
- Thailand
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest
- access to info. law
- positive court ruling
- journalist detained
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- criminal defamation
- land rights
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Crackdown on Thai activists continues as new restrictive NGO law proposed
- Published at
- 19.04.2021
- Country
- Thailand
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- protestor(s) detained
- negative court ruling
- excessive force
- protest
- protest disruption
- women
- prevention of protest
- intimidation
- harassment
- restrictive law
- HRD prosecuted
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Thai authorities use excessive force, lese-majeste laws to clamp down on pro-democracy protests
- Published at
- 02.12.2020
- Country
- Thailand
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- protest disruption
- HRD prosecuted
- restrictive law
- harassment
- excessive force
- criminal defamation