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Human Rights under Attack: Overview of the human rights situation in Southern Thailand

This report compiles findings and cases of human rights abuses documented and investigated in 2007 until February of 2008 by the Working Group on Justice for Peace. While presenting the policies implemented by the government, this report shows how these policies have led to grave human rights violations against the local population, including torture, disappearances [...]

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4 Years of Somchai Neelapaichit Disappearance

While this statement is read, I am at the United Nations’ Human Rights Council session in Geneva, Switzerland, to present a report of the human rights situation in Thailand and also to report on the latest developments and obstacles in the investigation of the disappearance of Mr Somchai Neelapaichit which was taken up by the [...]

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Thailand: Disappearance of Somchai Neelapaichit raised at UN Human Rights Council

Geneva, 11 March 2008 — The 4th anniversary of the disappearance of Somchai Neelapaichit was marked today at the Human Rights Council in Geneva with a statement by Angkhana Neelapaichit urging the Royal Thai Government and the Department of Special Investigation to show their sincerity by thoroughly investigating the disappearance, by asking high ranking officers [...]

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Thailand: WGJP raises systematic and widespread torture at the UN

The Working Group on Justice for Peace has been receiving dozens of complaints of torture and ill-treatment taking place in army camps throughout the three southern border provinces of Thailand demonstrating this is a systematic and widespread practice during interrogations of detainees suspected of national security offences. The Thai government must take responsibility to withdraw [...]

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