Two journalists died and several others were injured during the country’s political unrest. A CPJ investigation has found that both security forces and protesters engaged in reckless behavior—and in the aftermath, the government has done little to bring anyone to account. A CPJ special report by Shawn W. Crispin. After Thai security forces and antigovernment protesters clashed in a series [...]

A second close aide of the late red shirt supporter Seh Daeng has been arrested, but he is denying all terrorism charges against him. The Department of Special Investigation said Rachata Wongyort, arrested yesterday, was a close aide of Khattiya Sawasdipol, or Seh Daeng, the core red shirt supporter who was shot at Sala Daeng intersection on May 13. It [...]

BANGKOK, 15 July 2010 (NNT) — A negotiation process between the leaders of the anti-government United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) and the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) leader kicked off today. Both sides have been embroiled in defamation suits and counter suits in the past two years. UDD leaders Veera Musikapong and Natthawut Saikua today traveled from Bangkok [...]

The country’s military continues to build an overwhelming surveillance machine To prevent protesters unleashing another urban insurrection, new CCTV cameras will eyeball the Bangkok streets where 90 people died, most of them civilians, and 1,400 were injured when the military battled Red Shirts and crushed their bamboo barricades in May. Thailand’s army-backed government is now wielding overwhelming surveillance, imprisonment, censorship [...]

BANGKOK, June 26 (TNA) — Six leaders of the anti-government ‘Red Shirt’ United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) who were detained at Klong Prem Prison have been moved to join their five compatriots at Bangkok Remand Prison as requested by their lawyers and other UDD leaders, according to Corrections Department director-general Chartchai Suthiklom. The Corrections Department earlier separated six [...]

BANGKOK, 24 June 2010 (NNT) – Seven teams of police investigators have been set up to hunt down three wanted anti-government leaders who remain at large. Deputy Metropolitan Police Chief Police Colonel Songpol Wattanachai told the press that the authorities had been continuously searching for the exact whereabouts of the three runaway core leaders of the United Front of Democracy [...]

Several thousand red shirts have united for the first time since their protest was broken up on May 19 to mourn the death of their “heroic fighter”, army specialist Khattiya Sawasdipol. Supporters of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) flooded Wat Sommanat yesterday with bitterness, resentment and anger about the death of the red shirt security chief, better [...]

Thailand’s prime minister said previously proposed November elections are not feasible “in the current environment”, 10 days after the Thai army quashed an anti-government protest in Bangkok. However, in his weekly television address yesterday, Abhisit Vejjajiva said he believed the situation in Thailand was “getting back to normal”. Thai authorities have lifted a night-time curfew in place since May 19, [...]

(RTTNews) – Two foreigners, a Briton and an Australian, have been arrested in Thailand on charges of breaching emergency laws, an offense that carries up to two years imprisonment. A state of emergency was enforced in the capital Bangkok and nearby provinces after anti-government demonstrators stormed the country’s Parliament on April 7. Several UDD leaders are in police custody on [...]

Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — A Thai court issued a warrant Tuesday against the country’s ousted prime minister on terrorism charges connected with the violent clashes that crippled Bangkok for weeks, the former prime minister’s lawyer said. Thai investigators claimed former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a bloodless military coup in 2006, helped mastermind and fund the anti-government [...]