Gen Prawit defends the need to keep military temporary prison

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Gen Prawit defends the need to keep military temporary prison



BANGKOK: -- Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwan has rejected call by human rights’ call to close down the military temporary prison at the 11th army circle after the suicide of an alleged lese majeste offender, Pol Maj Prakrom Warunprapa.

He defended that the temporary prison was still necessary to detain important offenders. However, he said that the prison might be closed down one day when the situation does not warrant its existence.

As for the suicide of Pol Maj Prakrom, the defence minister explained that since the Corrections Department was responsible for looking after the detainees, it would be held accountable and a fact-finding committee would be set up to investigate the incident.

As for the other alleged offender, wellknown fortune-teller Suriyan Sucharitpolawong, General Prawit said that he was still alive but suffering from some minor illness.

The deputy prime minister also pleaded with followers of the red-shirt movement known as the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship to refrain from wearing red on November 1 to show their moral support for former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra.

He maintained that the National Council for Peace and Order didn’t ban people from for wearing shirts of the colours of their choices but merely didn’t want to see the red colour of being used as a political symbol.

He also warned UDD core leaders that they might face legal actions if red-shirt supporters cause trouble on November 1.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/gen-prawit-defends-the-need-to-keep-military-temporary-prison


-- Thai PBS 2015-10-26

[phoenixdoglover]

I have no doubt the military needs this prison.

Edited October 26, 2015 by phoenixdoglover

[Orac]

Good luck with that investigation!

Via @pravitr

Justice Min. said body of lese majeste suspect who 'committed suicide' taken by family &there won't be forensic examination. #Thailand only!

[zaphod reborn]

Gitmo Thailand - just like the US, they can't give it up.

[Always18]

The alleged "suicide" of Prakrom was just an utter disgrace for this junta on so many levels................

[Dogmatix]

Ppl Maj. Prakom's death was no doubt very convenient for some, just like the other LM suspect in Oongpat's inner circle at the CIB who took a flyer from the balcony of his condo, which used to called defenestration when practiced by BOSS in South Africa.

Edited October 26, 2015 by Dogmatix

[h90]

Gitmo Thailand - just like the US, they can't give it up.

Thailand doesn't officially torture people and the put Thais into the prison not some foreigner....

So very different

[hanuman2543]

Gitmo Thailand - just like the US, they can't give it up.

Thailand doesn't officially torture people and the put Thais into the prison not some foreigner....

So very different

The massive violation of basic human rights is the same.

[zaphod reborn]

Gitmo Thailand - just like the US, they can't give it up.

Thailand doesn't officially torture people and the put Thais into the prison not some foreigner....

So very different

How do you know? A black site with codename "Cat's Eye" was located in Thailand so foreigners probably were tortured in a Thailand prison. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/07/ex-cia-electric-drill-contractor-training-operatives_n_708085.html

Al-Nashiri was captured in Dubai in November 2002 and was taken to another CIA secret prison in Afghanistan known as the Salt Pit - a facility that figures in a separate Durham prosecution of a detainee death in 2002. Al-Nashiri was flown to still another secret CIA prison in Thailand, where he stayed briefly, then taken to the Poland prison on Dec. 5, 2002, just days after that facility was opened.

[Emster23]

"The prison might be closed down one day when the situation does not warrant its existence."

I think I read the solar system only has another 4 billion or so years left, so I guess that qualifies as "temporary".

[Hawk]

The army classify this jail as permenant.

[AGareth2]

still alive?

for how long?

[Srikcir]

With 60 million potential lese majeste offenders, the military should actually consider building more prisons!

[ldiablo]

"The prison might be closed down one day when the situation does not warrant its existence."

I think I read the solar system only has another 4 billion or so years left, so I guess that qualifies as "temporary".

That's about the same time when we should see elections held again in Thailand.