(Source: HRW - Human Rights Watch) (New York) - Thailand 's government should stop bringing trumped-up criminal charges against human rights lawyers to harass and retaliate against them, Human Rights Watch said today. Thailand's friends, including the United States, should publicly call on the military junta to stop persecuting its critics. On February 9, 2016, Bangkok police brought two charges against a human rights lawyer, Sirikan Charoensiri, connected to her representation of activists in June 2015. On February 19, the deputy national police chief, Gen. Sriwara Rangsipramanakul, publicly threatened to...
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