British ambassador visits Thai justice minister - human rights record at top of agenda

[webfact]

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Thai Rath reported on a meeting between H.E. Mark Gooding, the British Ambassador to Thailand, and Somsak Thepsuthin, the Justice Minister.

 

They were pictured at the Ministry of Justice where an "r" had fallen off the sign. 

 

Mr Gooding said that he had been the ambassador for a year now and was impressed with Thailand's moves to improve human rights especially among the prison population.

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Somsak was able to reveal that the overcrowding in the prisons was now being addressed with a prison population of just 290,000 down from 390,000.

 

ASEAN NOW notes that this was less to do with moves to address human rights and more to do with the fact that close to 100,000 inmates were released because of the change in the law related to marijuana. 

 

Drafts of the marriage act, witness protection act, legislation related to torture and the detention of prisoners as well as the well being of women and children in Thailand were also discussed.

 

Somasak was able to show that Thailand is following international rules when it came to the propagation of Human Rights in the kingdom. 

 

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[sammieuk1]

Ok found the missing "R" in ministry of justice now try and find the justice for non Hi-So's ????

[mikebell]

Our Ambassador will make as much headway with Somsak as all the UK pensioners did with him.  Surely we have Human Rights too?  And this ain't right!

[Rampant Rabbit]

"if  u go down to the woods  today your'e in for a big  surprise"

 

Ask any Rohingya, not so  much brushed  under the carpet  but dead and  buried

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/thailand-myanmar-rohingya-idINKBN0NN0C120150502

[Rampant Rabbit]

31 minutes ago, mikebell said:

Our Ambassador will make as much headway with Somsak as all the UK pensioners did with him.  Surely we have Human Rights too?  And this ain't right!

Hes  on that good  old  fashioned railway...........the gravy train

[Orinoco]

What you reckon. 

 

[ikke1959]

maybe the the British are not aware of the labour abuse in the fishing undustry, work enviroment for Burmese people, long work hours for doctors and nurses and other people to earn just enough not to die... freedom of speech, rights to have peaceful demonstrations without a huge police/army force with chemical watercanons .....That are Human Rights too, 

[Kinnock]

Nobody in Thailand cares about a country so poor and insignificant it had to sell it's embassy on Wireless Road and move into a rented shop house.

[Excel]

40 minutes ago, Kinnock said:

Nobody in Thailand cares about a country so poor and insignificant it had to sell it's embassy on Wireless Road and move into a rented shop house.

Premises are perfectly adequate for the Ambassadors we have had for the last several years. In fact possibly a mobile noodle vehicle would be more appropriate as they really are a moving target for anybody who wants any support from the Embassy. Unless you are dead of course in which case they soon post how they helped the relatives, its just the living they don't give a monkeys about.

[edwinchester]

"Somasak was able to show that Thailand is following international rules when it came to the propagation of Human Rights in the kingdom."

 

Wonder if he raised the disappearances of those critics of the regime who were found in the Mekong with a concrete overcoat when he heard this?

[Excel]

2 minutes ago, edwinchester said:

"Somasak was able to show that Thailand is following international rules when it came to the propagation of Human Rights in the kingdom."

 

Wonder if he raised the disappearances of those critics of the regime who were found in the Mekong with a concrete overcoat when he heard this?

And the others who have disappeared without trace in Laos

[RichardColeman]

If they ever link the disgraceful road deaths to Human rights then thailand is really up the proverbial creek

[Burma Bill]

7 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

now try and find the justice for non Hi-So's ????

Also the Bu.mese lads still in prison!!

[Orinoco]

5 minutes ago, Burma Bill said:

Also the Bu.mese lads still in prison!!

Sad bit is the families believe the Thai cops over it all.

and the nasty guy who did it  is still on the loose, on death island.

TIT.

 

 

[sitanonchai]

What is the benefit of this meeting, nothing.

Just some mutual .rs.l.ck.ng en continue as usual.

[Orinoco]

14 minutes ago, sitanonchai said:

What is the benefit of this meeting, nothing.

Just some mutual .rs.l.ck.ng en continue as usual.

Looks more like a best Mask and worst Tie competition.

They win.

[trainman34014]

Just an excuse for a free lunch and some very good wine at Taxpayers expense !

[PETERTHEEATER]

Mark, Mark! Sounds like a dog with a lisp.....

[Geroniman]

Actually a dog with a hare lip!

[Sir Dude]

How about he speaks up for UK citizen's rights (or lack thereof) and their situations in Thailand, in contrast to the disparity of said rights that we enjoy here compared to what Thai citizens do in Britain? 

Pfft.... usual UK embassy nonsense.

[internationalism]

what about over 30 political detainees on pretrial, including 2 girls on over 50 days hunger strike?

and many more already sentenced just for sharing facebook posts.

 

and what about "Rights groups concerned about anti-torture bill delay"

https://prachatai.com/english/node/9898

[hotchilli]

21 hours ago, webfact said:

They were pictured at the Ministry of Justice where an "r" had fallen off the sign

Is it being replaced with an "L"