Thailand: Upcoming Election Fundamentally Flawed

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Ethnic minority women make three-finger salutes during pro-democracy demonstration in Chiang Mai, Thailand, February 2023. © 2023 Pongmanat Tasiri / SOPA Images/Sipa USA (New York) – Thailand’s election scheduled for May 14, 2023, will be held under political, constitutional, and legal frameworks that make a free and fair process nearly impossible, Human Rights Watch said today. Thailand Open Letter to Foreign Ministers Human Rights Watch and over 50 Thai and international civil society groups highlighted these issues in joint letters to 25 of Thailand’s democratic…

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