State of Emergency was declared to handle Covid-19 epidemic in the last week of March 2020, it was later extended to due on 31 May 2020 with possibility of extension. This piece review how State of Emergency were declared in the past, how long it last and how it was revoked.
A major new study into the rise of SLAPP use in Thailand has been unveiled – with disturbing implications not just for the people being hit with these trumped-up legal charges which aim to silence free speech, but for the rest of the world.
On 18 February 2019, Gen.Apirat Kongsompong, an army chief gave interview to the press, saying that “Do you know what is the big hit song at the time? It is ‘scum of the earth.’ “Apart of such statement in his interview the army chief also ordered radio stations which belong to the army to play Patriotic songs such as ‘Scum of the earth’ and Army’s March in its air time.
The speech of the Army chief had been criticized widely.