ARTICLE 19's new report, 'Thailand: Denying the demand for democracy' finds that authorities have used the country’s Public Assembly Act and Covid-19 state of emergency regulations as pretexts to restrict and repress pro-democracy protests.
The Thai government’s treatment of pro-democracy protesters has been discriminatory and violated their rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, ARTICLE 19 said in a report released today. Thai authorities exploited the COVID-19 pandemic to enact repressive emergency measures and aggressively and expansively deployed Section 112 of the Criminal Code against protesters. Hundreds of protesters remain in legal proceedings.