Thai junta can still detain people without charge

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Thai junta can still detain people without charge

By The Nation

 

 

Politicians and the public have voiced dissatisfaction with the junta’s decision to hang on to its order authorising arbitrary military detention is being kept. 

 

Even though the junta decided on Tuesday to ease its control by lifting 70-odd old orders such as media intervention and trying cases in military court, critics say there is still room for improvement. 

 

Anti-junta Future Forward Party secretary-general Piyabutr Saengkanokkul said on Tuesday that the decision to hang on to some orders was made just before the National Council for Peace and Order is dissolved, because it wants its leader General Prayut Chan-o-cha to have full power until the last minute. He also said that the revocation of 70 old orders was not quite enough.

 

“The junta is still supported by the Constitution’s Article 279 because it pardons them for all their actions,” the former law professor said, adding that his party’s mission is to have this law abolished in order to stop the junta from being above the law.

 

He also said that the though the junta’s orders are being revoked, their impact will still be felt in society.

 

According to Piyabutr, the Future Forward Party is looking to launch a motion in Parliament to set up a committee to study all the impacts these orders have had. 

 

“It’s not like we can forget these orders ever existed once they are revoked,” he said. 

 

Pro-rights organisation iLaw, which has been campaigning for the junta to revoke its “announcements” and orders after the election, acknowledged the junta’s move. However, it said the order that allows soldiers to detain people without a charge for seven days and other similar orders that remain are an infringement on people’s rights and freedom. 

 

The organisation said there are some 20 junta orders that must be removed, and it is awaiting Parliament’s approval of the proposal it has submitted with more than 13,000 signatures.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30372709

 

-- © Copyright The Nation Thailand 2019-07-10

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[quandow]

If it looks like a duck . . .

[Just1Voice]

Because that's what dictators do. 

[tracker1]

General Prayut Chan-o-cha to have full power until the last minute. or should that be last breath

[Alcapone13]

happiness personified 

[londonthai]

how about withdrawing all junta orders?

there were some 500 of them.

 

compensate those, who were affected.

 

jail junta members, ministers, officers carrying their duties, including those responsible for beatings and torture, for treason

[Lupatria]

"Kill the best and buy the rest- and they call it democracy" (Bruce Cockburn)

[ChrisY1]

And no mention of eliminating S44.....

[30la]

The Junta continues to reign!

[30la]

13 minutes ago, ChrisY1 said:

And no mention of eliminating S44.....

The General must have the opportunity to maintain total power!

[lamyai3]

Resistance is futile! 

[rosst]

Not the hallmark of a true democracy, this is not good enough, dark days ahead for Thailand. 

[nickstav]

I must be missing something here....wasn't the purpose of the election to get rid of the junta?

[yellowboat]

Martial law

[Isaan sailor]

No worries, we can all move to Hong Kong. They won’t put up with extradition orders.

[hotchilli]

19 hours ago, webfact said:

the order that allows soldiers to detain people without a charge for seven days and other similar orders that remain are an infringement on people’s rights and freedom

Thailand 2019 the military still have the iron grip!!

So much for freedom of speech!

[ocddave]

Well that sure sounds like democracy, right? SMH.

[PhonThong]

"and that my friends is a dictatorship". 

[Joker Man]

Well, welcome to amazing Thailand... The era of chaos, disorganized, destroyed, annihilates, incarceration, unprofessional and totalitarian time.

[ben2talk]

An oddly specific article. Thai Junta can do anything they like - and if you don't like it there'll be a bunch of baseball bats around your head to shut you up.

 

If there's anything they can't get away with, they must move to another desk and sit in a naughty corner for a week before being allowed to move back.