Authorities repressed peaceful protesters, and detained and launched criminal proceedings against human rights defenders, opposition politicians and other critics for joining peaceful assemblies and expressing critical views of the government, the Constitution, and the monarchy. A series of...

Amnesty International submits this report ahead of the review of Thailand by the UN Committee against Torture in October 2024. It sets out Amnesty International’s key concerns on various issues related to torture and other cruel, degrading and inhuman treatments in Thailand.

Amnesty International has filed an amicus curiae brief to the Bangkok Civil Court on the applicable international and regional human rights law and standards on the right to privacy, the right to an effective remedy, and human rights due diligence, in relation to the case Jatupat Boonpattararaksa...

We, the undersigned organizations, write this open letter to request you take urgent and immediate steps to end the ongoing abuse of the judicial process and apparent arbitrary detention of human rights defenders, activists and protesters in Thailand, solely because of their exercise of their right...

This report tells the stories of women and LGBTI activists in Thailand who sought to leverage digital technology for advancing their peaceful activism amid the shrinking civic space since the 2014 military coup. These activists nonetheless faced technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TfGBV),...

This report tells the stories of women and LGBTI activists in Thailand who sought to leverage digital technology for advancing their peaceful activism amid the shrinking civic space since the 2014 military coup. These activists nonetheless faced technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TfGBV),...

On 25 October 2004, approximately 2,000 people gathered peacefully in front of the Tak Bai Police Station in Narathiwat Province, one of Thailand’s insurgency-ridden southern border provinces (SBPs), to demand the release of six Malay Muslim village defense volunteers held in detention.1 In...

This World Refugee Day, Amnesty International is calling on the governments of Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Myanmar military and the international community to make efforts to support the hundreds of thousands of displaced Rohingya people in securing their fundamental human rights...

In response to news on 17 May 2023 of the fatal shooting of Bounsuan Kitiyano, a 56-year-old Lao human rights defender and a refugee recognized the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), in a border town in northeastern Thailand, we, the ten undersigned organizations, urge the government of...

Today marks the second anniversary since ASEAN agreed on the Five Point Consensus in response to the military coup in Myanmar. The Myanmar military has ignored calls from the international community to stop the violence. Moreover, since the coup, the Myanmar military has committed war crimes and...

Today, more than 15 years after Thailand became a State Party to the UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (UNCAT), its long-delayed Act on Prevention and Suppression of Torture and Enforced Disappearance comes into effect. The International...

“We Are Reclaiming Our Future” examines key human rights issues and obstacles impeding children’s full enjoyment of their right to peaceful assembly for in the context of nationwide demonstrations across Thailand between 2020 and 2022. Amnesty International found that children continued to...

We, the undersigned non-governmental organizations, are writing to express our serious concern regarding the ongoing impact of the implementation of the Emergency Decree on Public Administration in Emergency Situation B.E. 2548 (“Emergency Decree”) in response to the Covid-19 pandemic in Thailand....