Thailand: No Arrests for Assaults on Junta Critics

(New York) – Authorities in Thailand should urgently and impartially investigate repeated attacks on prominent pro-democracy activists, Human Rights Watch said today. Expand Anurak Jeantawanich, prominent critic of the Thai military government, has been repeatedly attacked, while authorities have failed to bring the perpetrators to justice. © 2019 Private In the past year, unidentified assailants have on several occasions, including twice in May 2019, attacked Anurak “Ford” Jeantawanich and Ekachai Hongkangwan in and around Bangkok. In almost all of these attacks, Thai police have not…

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