Bangkok: Three Thai activists in exile and accused of insulting the country’s powerful monarchy have gone missing, rights groups and a family member said, as demands mount for answers on their whereabouts.
The activists, Chucheep Chiwasut, who broadcasts political commentary online, and two colleagues, Siam Theerawut and Kritsana Tupthai, were arrested in Vietnam early this year and sent back to Thailand this week, according to rights groups.“He said he is fine, and talked about what he has eaten and places he has visited, but did not say where he was,” Kanya Theerawut said yesterday, adding she had visited police this week but was told there was no information available.
Two of those men were found in late December in the Mekong river with concrete stuffed into their stomachs.Prosecutions under Thailand’s lese-majeste law, which carries penalties of up to 15 years for insulting the wealthy monarchy, soared after the junta took over.“The long arm of repression also reaches across the border as exiled dissidents have been pursued”, said Sunai Phasuk, senior Thai expert for Human Rights Watch.
On Friday, a prominent pro-democracy activist who was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for sharing an unflattering BBC profile of the king on Facebook was freed in a royal pardon a little more than a month shy of his sentence ending. — AFP
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