Much is being said right now on Thailand’s draconian lese majeste law which forbids critical comments about the country’s royal family. A recent FCCT event saw the topic discussed by a number of academics and human rights figures (read an overview at Siam Voices here) while fellow AC blogger Bangkok Pundit has covered in depth […]
Thai police have arrested U.S. citizen Lerpong Wichaikhammat, 54, and charged him with defaming the revered monarchy for an alleged offense dating to a four-year-old post on his blog. Insulting the monarchy, known as “Lese Majeste”, is a serious crime in Thailand that is punishable by up to 15 years in prison. Rights groups and […]
Seven Uganda women were arrested for working illegally as prostitutes on Walking Street, although they were on tourist visa. On 26 May 2011, Police Lieutenant Colonel, Greeta Tamkanarat (Deputy Superintendent), the leader of Children & Women Protection Centre and Human Trafficking Suppression team conducted a successful sting operation and arrested three Uganda women, allegedly accused […]
BANGKOK, May 22 – Three Iranians were detained at Suvarnabhumi Airport for allegedly smuggling crystal methamphetamine or ‘ice’ weighing 5.2 kilogrammes altogether and worth more than 15 million baht (US $ 500,000). Mr Farshad ‘Curly’ Lashgari, Mr Mehrad ‘Moe’ Ghorbani and Mr Abbas ‘Larry’ Mahtab were arrested at Suvarnabhumi Airport with 2.66 kilogrammes, 1.39 kilogrammes […]
BANGKOK, May 20 — Thailand’s Immigration Police Bureau arrested two Czechs with outstanding arrest warrants from the Czech Republic and Interpol for a 2 million Euro bank cash delivery robbery in 2008. Josef Blazek, 32, and Rudolf Tesarek, 35, were arrested at a Robinson Department Store in the eastern province of Chon Buri’s Sriracha district. […]
One of five men who were caught at a Police Checkpoint in South Pattaya attempted to escape from Pattaya Police Station as he was about to undergo a drugs test. The men were caught on Pattaya Third Road in front of Soi 17, in the early hours of Wednesday and taken back to the station […]
BANGKOK, May 19 – Two Nigerian men, suspected of being part of a drug smuggling ring, were arrested Thursday with 500 grammes of crystal methamphetamine, also known as ‘ice,’ valued at an estimated Bt1 million (US$33,300) in eastern Bangkok’s Ramkhamhaeng area, according to narcotics suppression police. Identified as Ahamefule Cosmos and Iriegbe Chinonso, the two […]
Vienna/Bangkok – Two Czechs who stole 74 million crowns from a security agency’s van near Horice, east Bohemia, in January 2008 have been arrested in Thailand, the APA Austrian news agency reported today. The Regional Court in Hradec Kralove, east Bohemia, issued an international warrant for their arrest last November. The Austrian press writes that […]
