Thailand: Unending Rights Crisis

Expand Anti-coup students hold posters dedicated to the third anniversary of a military coup during a demonstration at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand on May 22, 2017. © 2017 Chaiwat Subprasom / Reuters (New York) – Thailand’s government took no significant steps to restore democratic rule and basic freedoms in 2017, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2018. The military junta’s adoption of a national human rights agenda and repeated assurances that it would hold elections for a civilian government did nothing to reverse the country’s human rights crisis. In the 643-page World…

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