Letter to the Thailand Office of the Council of the State Re: Proposed Law on Not-for-Profit Organizations
Attn: Secretary-General
Dear Secretary-General,
I write on behalf of Human Rights Watch to highlight our very serious concerns about the proposed Act on the Operations of Not-for-Profit Organizations (the “Act”),[1] and formally submit these comments and recommendations for consideration by Thailand’s Council of State as part of the public hearing process on this draft law. Human Rights Watch is a nongovernmental organization that monitors and reports on human rights in more than 100 countries around the world. We have documented the human rights situation and advocated for human rights in Thailand for more than 30 years.
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Tuesday, 12 January 2021, 4:41 pm
Myanmar
authorities should immediately release and end criminal
proceedings against dozens of student activists facing
criminal charges for their involvement in peaceful protest
activities, Fortify Rights said today. Today, Aung Myay
Thar-Zan Township Court is scheduled to consider criminal
complaints against student leader Phone Myint Kyaw, whom
police arrested last week.
Phone Myint Kyaw is the
21st student activist arrested since September 2020 as part
of a months-long
crackdown on peaceful anti-war protesters. Police filed
criminal complaints against at least 32 students for their
participation in a campaign to protest the ongoing war
between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army an ethnic