Arnon Nampa’s youngest child runs toward the sound of shackles. The 3-year-old’s only memories of his father, a prominent human right lawyer and activist, are from seeing him in a courtroom – not from ...
Across Southeast Asia, increasingly authoritarian governments are systematically corroding freedom of expression as their tolerance for dissent and criticism deteriorates. States continue to harass, ...
An exiled Thai professor talks about his campaign to abolish the controversial law, which criminalizes criticisms of the country’s monarchy. A portrait of Thailand’s King Vajiralongkorn in Chiang ...
Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Thailand's first female PM Yingluck Shinawatra receives the royal command ...
Thai social critic Sulak Sivaraksa is escorted outside a military court earlier this year, when the latest lese-majeste charges against him were dropped.Credit: AP Palming a deck of cards in the ...