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Joint letter on prison conditions and COVID-19
19/07/2021
Bangkok, Thailand
Dear Mr. Somsak,
We, the undersigned national and international human rights organizations, reiterate our calls for the Ministry of Justice to take urgent measures to address ongoing overcrowding and the COVID-19 crisis in prisons across the country.
In mid-April of 2020, during the early stages of the pandemic, we sent a joint letter to the Department of Corrections in which we expressed our gravest concern over the potentially disastrous impact of the pandemic on the prison population and prison staff in Thailand. One year later, COVID-19 cases surged in the Thailand’s prison system amid a new wave of virus transmissions that hit many parts of the country beginning in April 2021.
Protests feared to be losing steam
1 Protests feared to be losing steam
ABOUT POLITICS: Anti-government groups said to be lacking unity and urged to rethink their strategy if they want to oust Prayut v Democrats political standing continues to dwindle, having gone from a leading contender in 2011 to a junior coalition partner at present
published : 17 Jul 2021 at 04:00 Jatuporn: Jail term thwarts leader
The anti-government protests are a mix of old and new groups disgruntled by the prolonged grip on power by the generals who are living proof that there is political life after the dissolution of the coup-engineering National Council for Peace and Order, according to a political expert who asked not to be named.
Former red-shirt leader Jatuporn Prompan
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against former red-shirt leader Jatuporn Prompan, ordering him to serve prison terms in two defamation cases back-to-back.
Following the ruling, the Criminal Court sent a notice to Bangkok Remand Prison saying Jatuporn will need to serve another 11 months and 16 days over his 2009 defamation case filed against him by former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva.
The Supreme Court found Jatuporn guilty of defamation in December 2017 and sentenced him to 12 months in prison without suspension.
When the sentence was handed down, Jatuporn was already serving a sentence for defaming Mr Abhisit in a different case.
The Criminal Court has approved bail requests for the temporary releases of three pro-democracy protesters on condition that they not get involved in activities deemed to dishonour the monarchy.