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Thailand's Constitutional Court accepted a complaint on Thursday seeking to remove Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin over his cabinet appointment of a lawyer who served jail time, in a new legal ...
Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday said it will rule on whether to dissolve the political party that won the most seats in last year’s election for allegedly violating the ...
Thailand’s Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin has been removed from office after a court ruled he had violated the constitution, in a shock decision that plunges the kingdom into further political ...
A Thai court on Friday accepted a criminal lawsuit against seven senior security personnel over their alleged roles in the deaths two decades ago of 85 Muslim protesters, most of whom suffocated ...
A Thai media provider was reported to be censoring a foreign news network reporting the protests. [ 266 ] A severe state of emergency was declared in Bangkok during 15–22 October, [ 267 ] during which the police moved to ban or block anti-government or independent media, together with the Free Youth Facebook page, [ 268 ] and seized books ...
Thailand retains the death penalty, but carries it out only sporadically. Since 1935, Thailand has executed 326 people, 319 by shooting (the latest on 11 December 2002), and 7 by lethal injection (the latest on 18 June 2018). As of March 2018, 510 people are on death row. [2] As of October 2019, 59 are women and 58 are for drug-related crimes.
Human trafficking is a major issue in Thailand. This includes misleading and kidnapping men from Cambodia by traffickers and selling them into illegal fishing boats that trawl the Gulf of Thailand and the South China Sea. [140] These men are promised better paid jobs but instead forced to work as sea slaves for as long as 3 years. [141]
Thailand’s Constitutional Court will rule on Sept. 30 whether suspended Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has already served eight years in office and must resign. Prayuth, then the Thai army ...