UN Human Rights Chief Blasts Thai Junta's New Security Order

Less than 24 hours after Thailand's junta replaced martial law with a special security order, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein issued a scathing statement blasting Thailand's government for a move he called “even more draconian” than martial law. “The problem is they've replaced it with something that's even worse, essentially - more draconian, not least because it's vauger and more, sort of, all-encompassing,” Rupert Colville, a...

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