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THAILAND Impunity for protest killings
It is 20 years since 85 people were killed in the violent dispersal of a demonstration in Tak Bai, south Thailand. The officials responsible never faced justice, although they were identified in a government report. And now time appears to have run out.
On 25 October 2004 seven people were shot during a protest outside the police station in Tak Bai. A further 78 suffocated or were crushed to death after being rounded up and crammed into military trucks before being driven away.
Since then the survivors and their families, supported by Amnesty International, have been fighting to bring those responsible – all former or current high-ranking officials – to justice. In a landmark decision this August, a court finally agreed that seven of them could be charged with murder, attempted murder, and illegal detention. They were summoned to appear in court, but none of them did so. The statute of limitations, which sets a time limit for prosecutions to begin, expired for this case on 25 October this year. Under Thai law at least one defendant must appear in court for the case to start.
Amnesty believes there should be no statute of limitations for serious human rights violations or crimes under international law, including extra-judicial killings. We are therefore urging the Thai authorities to ensure there is no impunity for the suspects in the Tak Bai killings.
531 26 cases of assault attempted murders Source: National Abortion Federation OCCUPIED UKRAINE Teachers threatened
Ukrainian teachers in Russian- occupied Ukraine face threats and violence if they do not teach Russian propaganda, Amnesty research has found. We have gathered
testimonies from teachers who say they have been threatened and beaten up by Russian authorities in a bid to get them to teach Russia’s version of
history. This claims that Russia is liberating the the Ukrainian people from oppression. As a result, many teachers are concealing their identities, have fled their homes or are in hiding. As the occupying power, Russia has an obligation to fulfil the right to education and not violate this by indoctrinating pupils with propaganda.
11 murders
Attacks against people in the USA who facilitated abortions between 1977 and 2022. There were also burglaries, arson and death threats.
Teacher Nadiya Atroshchenko presents an education certificate. Ukrainian teachers are being forced to teach Russian propaganda or flee their homes
ETHIOPIA Mass arrests in Amhara
Paridah Toleh shows pictures of her son Saroj Toleh, who was killed in the Tak Bai protest
The Ethiopian government is conducting a campaign of arbitrary mass arrests in the Amhara region of the country, eyewitnesses have told Amnesty. The hundreds recently detained – many of them academics and civil servants – were given no reason for their arrest. Nor were they brought before a court within 48 hours, as required by Ethiopian law.
Since a state of emergency was declared in Amhara in 2023, a crackdown on dissent has forced many journalists and human rights activists into exile. These latest arrests risk further eroding freedom of expression. Amnesty is calling on the authorities to charge those they are holding with a recognisably criminal offence or release them immediately.
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