CHIANGRAI TIMES – A court in Thailand on Thursday sentenced an undertaker to 40 months in prison for helping to hide illegally aborted foetuses at a Buddhist temple in Bangkok. Suthep Chabangbon was convicted by a district court in the capital of concealing 15 of the roughly 2,000 foetuses found last year in the temple’s […]
Jakarta governor is ripped by miniskirted women for his comment on provocative dress Nothing illustrates the strains on Indonesian society better than what happened in Jakarta when the city governor, Fauzi Bowo, said last week that women who wear miniskirts in public are inviting rape. The howls have been heard far and wide, with the […]
A ninth-grader was found hanging at her home in Lampang’s Sop Prab district, a few days after a teacher, who was arrested in Pathum Thani for allegedly raping her over the past five years, hanged himself last Saturday. The 15-year-old girl’s mother said her daughter appeared distraught after Phayonsak Udom was arrested last Friday. “I […]
Below is a list of recent media reports that will verify the fact that migrant workers, domestic maids in particular, suffer outrageous human rights violations that take place on a daily basis throughout the Middle East. There are many cases of suicide attempts every week, coupled with countless reports of maids who get raped, beaten, […]
Raped, battered, made pregnant, then kicked out: a common story Sapana Bishwokarma, 26, has no answer when she is asked about the father of the two-year-old boy who plays beside her. She says her body trembles with fear each time she recalls her son’s father. “I didn’t know that man very well,” says Bishwokarma, who […]
The Thai Immigration Section 1 with an arrest warrant from a French court apprehended a French teacher who had raped his step daughter and then escaped to Thailand. Pattaya, September 2, 2011 [PDN]; Pol.Col. Athisawit Klomrat Superintendent, Thai Immigration, Investigation Section 1 together with Pol.Lt.Col. Pravit Sirithorn arrested a Frenchman who resided at 35/70 Nattawadee […]
Police identified the man as Arnat Saweeyanon, 39, a former air force non-commissioned officer. Mr Arnat was detained at a rented house in Prachuap Khiri Khan’s Bang Saphan district after more than three weeks on the run. On June 7, a 27-year-old woman, who has not been identified, told police at Khok Kram station in […]
Teachers at a government-controlled Pattaya School are being accused of covering up a case of sexual assault involving a 14 year old male student and 11 year old female student which occurred in the school toilet block last Friday. The alleged assault only came-to-light on Tuesday after the female victim informed her Aunt of the […]
