For the third time in a decade, Thailand’s constitutional court has removed an elected government leader. Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has been ordered to step down on trivial charges of improperly transferring a bureaucrat. Thailand has a long history of military coups and the judiciary overriding the elected government. The situation for workers and activists in Thailand is precarious with the ongoing use of the Les Majeste laws to imprison activists. Tensions are clear within the red shirt movement, with calls for the working class to break away and build a force independent from Yingluck Shinawatra’s Pheu Thai party.
AAWL calls for:
No military coup in Thailand
Immediate release of all political prisoners in Thailand
Abolition of Article 112 (The Lese Majeste law)
For the third time in a decade, Thailand’s constitutional court has removed an elected government leader. Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has been ordered to step down on trivial charges of improperly transferring a bureaucrat. Thailand has a long history of military coups and the judiciary overriding the elected government. The situation for workers and activists in Thailand is precarious with the ongoing use of the Les Majeste laws to imprison activists. Tensions are clear within the red shirt movement, with calls for the working class to break away and build a force independent from Yingluck Shinawatra’s Pheu Thai party.
AAWL calls for:
No military coup in Thailand
Immediate release of all political prisoners in Thailand
Abolition of Article 112 (The Lese Majeste law)
