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Thailand: Police fine Amnesty staff member amid crackdown on freedom of expression

4 August 2021, 15:02 UTC Responding to the fining of an Amnesty International staff member, along with three speakers and a panel moderator, for taking part in a panel discussion on 4 July focusing on the enforced disappearances of Thai activists, including Wanchalearm Satsaksit, Amnesty International s Asia-Pacific Regional Director Yamini Mishra said:   “Our member of staff was simply doing her job to raise awareness in Thailand of international human rights law. The Thai authorities should not be fining her, the organizers or other panelists for simply speaking about the Thai authorities’ human rights obligations and the long history of enforced disappearances in this region.”

A year after taboo on Thai king broken, 103 face jail for

By Panu Wongcha-um and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK, Aug 3 (Reuters) - In the year since making an unprecedented, taboo-breaking speech openly calling for discussion on the role of Thailand s powerful king, human rights lawyer Arnon Nampa has spent months in jail, charged with the crime of defaming the monarchy. He is one of 103 people from Thailand s youth-led anti-government protests now charged with insulting or threatening King Maha Vajiralongkorn or his immediate family, a crime punishable by up to 15 years imprisonment. Hundreds more face other criminal charges. Arnon, 36, says he has no regrets and vows the prosecutions will not crush the anti-government movement, which in recent weeks has been building again.

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