In the wake of the April and May violence in Bangkok, several announcements by the Thai authorities appear to mean one thing, but in fact conceal another truth. The investigatory panel proposed by the authorities earlier this month leaves a lot of...
A powerful article from Shawn W. Crispin, an editor for Asia Times Online, points to the inception of a new period of military-authoritarian dictatorship in Thailand. Thailand is sliding towards de-facto military rule and it is not clear that Prim...
The Abhisit Vejjajiva administration in Thailand has made a number of symbolic gestures in recent days which are being viewed as a “reconciliation bid” following the killings of protesters in Bangkok over the past several months. ...
The following press release was distributed via wire from Paris this morning. Thailand Lacks Creditability to Investigate Bangkok Killings Paris, June 10, 2010 – The panel established by the Thai authorities to investigate the violence again...
In a blog post at New Mandala, the human rights activist Kwanravee Wangudom has published a response to an op/ed in the Bangkok Post which asserted that the government of Thailand had not violated human rights in the violence against protesters in...
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Thailand has published a statement on their web site which makes reference to a press release from our law firm. In the interest of free and open debate, we are reproducing the statement in full below witho...
It’s hard to say what is more disgusting: that President-for-life Nursultan Nazarbayev has taken hundreds of millions in bribes, that his New York bagman James Giffen doesn’t deny passing along $78 million of these bribes, or tha...
An editorial published today in the government-controlled Thai newspaper The Nation makes reference to my work and that of my colleague, lawyer Geert-Jan Alexander Knoops. Apart from the usual attacks, untruths, and libel that accompany intense po...
The leadership of the Russian Federation is all too often willing to openly identify the United States and NATO as its #1 enemy in leaked (on purpose, of course) security doctrines. The idea that NATO actually has coherent plans to harm Russ...
From the Wall Street Journal: Thailand’s Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is launching a charm offensive in an effort to win over the political middle ground after the worst political violence in modern Thai history, saying he is more intere...
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