Thursday, July 20, 2006

[Thailand] Losing Ground: Human Rights Defenders and Counterterrorism in Thailand / Human rights First, 18 Jul 2006

PDF - http://www.humanrightsfirst.info/pdf/06713-hrd-thailand-rep-web.pdf
!"Based on interviews, trial observation. and other research, the 36-page report analyzes national security, counterterrorism, and human rights defenders. It finds that over the two-and-a-half years of renewed conflict in the southern provinces, security forces have been making extensive arrests with little or no evidence of criminal activity, first under martial law and then under the July 2005 emergency decree." [Country profiles]