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Students from Thammasat and Chulalongkorn University show a banner during a football match between the two universities on February 2, 2013. The students are calling for the release of veteran labor activist Somyot Prueksakasemsuk, who has been sentenced to 11 years in jail for lèse majesté in January 2013. (Picture via Twitter/@Anuthee)

Debate rages over Thailand’s lèse majesté law

By Saksith Saiyasombut & Siam Voices Mon, Feb 04, 2013 10:30AM UTC 0 Comment

After the verdict against veteran labor activist Somyot Prueksakasemsuk, discussions about lèse majesté have been reignited on many levels and also in many forms. Somyot was recently sentenced to 11 years in prison, 10 of them for publishing articles (which he didn’t write himself) in a magazine that were deemed insulting to the monarchy – after being previously...

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Ubon Red Shirts still languish in jail, continue fight through letters

By Saksith Saiyasombut & Siam Voices Wed, Jan 02, 2013 7:05PM UTC 0 Comment

A member of the so-called 'Red Shirt Villages' attends a meeting near Khon Kaen, Thailand on July 2, 2011 (Photo by Saksith Saiyasombut/IHA)

UBON RATCHATHANI — For over two years, four Ubon Ratchathani Red Shirt members have remained imprisoned for their alleged role in the arson of the Ubon Ratchathani provincial hall following the April-May military crackdown on anti-government protests. But the bars of their prison have not been able to keep them completely locked up. Even from...

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Thailand: Abhisit, Suthep charged with murder over 2010 crackdown

By Saksith Saiyasombut & Siam Voices Fri, Dec 07, 2012 12:16PM UTC 1 Comment

Former Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, right, pictured with former Deputy Premier Suthep Thaugsuban in 2010. Pic: AP.

Thailand’s Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has said it will charge former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and then deputy prime minister Suthep Thuagsuban with premeditated murder for their involvement in the death of a taxi driver during the crackdown on the anti-government red shirt protests in May 2010, where about 90 people were killed. Both will...

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Panel Garners Red Shirt Support for the International Criminal Court

By Saksith Saiyasombut & Siam Voices Wed, Oct 17, 2012 3:30PM UTC 0 Comment

By The Isaan Record KHON KAEN – Cheers erupted the instant former Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva’s face appeared on the projection screen, but they were not cheers of support for the former figurehead. The enraptured audience was instead hailing the speaker’s assertions accompanying the slide. At Khon Kaen University’s College of Local Administration last Saturday,...

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Thailand’s Democrat Party rallies behind “men in black” conspiracy

By Saksith Saiyasombut & Siam Voices Mon, Oct 15, 2012 10:30AM UTC 0 Comment

On Saturday, members of Thailand’s opposition Democrat Party rallied in the streets of Bangkok that were the scenes of the bloody clashes of the anti-government protests in 2010. At least 92 people were killed and thousands were injured when the red shirts rallied and blocked off streets in central Bangkok in order to force out...

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