Todd Pitman

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Rights group: Thailand should investigate torture

Rights group: Thailand should investigate torture

Todd Pitman · October 8, 2014 5:40 am

In this picture take Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014.Advance for story Thailand-Academic Freedomâ by Thanyarat Doksone.Three students--Sirawit Serithiwat, left, Ratthapol Supasopon, second on the left, and Worawut Butrmatr, fourt from the left--negotiated with deputy provincial police chief Col. Surasak Khunnarong to let an academic seminar go on at Thammasat University, Rangsit Campus, in Pathum Thani, Thailand, Two days earlier, an army regiment asked the university for its cooperation to cancel the event to prevent divisiveness in the country.(AP Photo/Thanyarat Doksone)

At campuses, cracks in Thailand’s peaceful facade

Todd Pitman · October 3, 2014 8:09 am

Rights group calls on Thai junta to end repression

Rights group calls on Thai junta to end repression

Todd Pitman · September 11, 2014 5:30 am

British human rights activist Andy Hall arrives at Phra Khanong provincial court for a trial in Bangkok, Thailand Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014. Hall, who investigated alleged abuses at a Thai fruit processing factory went on trial Tuesday in the first in a series of criminal lawsuits filed against him by the company. Natural Fruit Co. Ltd. is accusing Hall of defamation in the wake of a report he helped author last year for the Finland-based watchdog group Finnwatch that detailed poor labor conditions in seafood and pineapple export companies in Thailand.(AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

British migrant rights activist faces Thai trial

Todd Pitman · September 2, 2014 4:35 am

Thailand's new Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha salutes during an establishment anniversary of the 21st infantry regiment, Queen's Guard, in Chonburi Province, Thailand, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014. Three months after overthrowing Thailand's last elected government, this Southeast Asian nation's junta leader is stepping out of his army uniform for good - to take up the post of prime minister in a move critics say will only extend his time at the helm and consolidate the military's grip on power. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thai army ruler named prime minister

Todd Pitman · August 21, 2014 7:54 pm

Thailand's new Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha salutes during an establishment anniversary of the 21st infantry regiment, Queen's Guard, in Chonburi Province, Thailand, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014. Three months after overthrowing Thailand's last elected government, this Southeast Asian nation's junta leader is stepping out of his army uniform for good - to take up the post of prime minister in a move critics say will only extend his time at the helm and consolidate the military's grip on power. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thai army ruler nominated as next prime minister

Todd Pitman · August 21, 2014 6:20 am

In this July 3, 2014 photo, Som Seng Eath, 86, widow of a dairy writer Poch Younly, pauses during an interview with the Associated Press in her home, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Nearly 40 years ago, Cambodian school inspector Poch Younly kept a secret diary vividly recounting the horrors of life under the Khmer Rouge, the radical communist regime whose extreme experiment in social engineering took the lives of 1.7 million Cambodians who died of overwork, medical neglect, starvation and execution.(AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Rare diary gives details of life under Khmer Rouge

Todd Pitman · August 9, 2014 9:23 am

In this June 4, 2014 photo, Thai soldiers hold a horse on display at an event organized by soldiers called "Return Happiness to the People" at Bangkok's Victory Monument, Thailand. The military junta that seized power here last month has no plans to return power to the people any time soon. But it has launched an official campaign to bring back something else this divided nation desperately needs - happiness. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

Cheer up, Thailand! Junta aims to return happiness

Todd Pitman · June 7, 2014 12:05 pm

A group of anti-coup protestors read books along an elevated walkway during a protest in Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, May 31, 2014. In junta-ruled Thailand where the army recently took power in a coup, the simple act of reading in public has become an act of resistance. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

In junta-ruled Thailand, reading is now resistance

Todd Pitman · June 1, 2014 3:30 am

In this photo taken May 25, 2014, a protester holds a banner during an anti-coup demonstration in Bangkok, Thailand. The last time Thailand's army seized power, in 2006, some called it "the smiling coup." It was bloodless, and for a time, it was calm. Last Thursday, Thailand's army seized power again, overthrowing a popularly elected administration that won a landslide vote three years earlier. But this time feels much different. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)

After 2 coups in 8 years, fears over Thai future

Todd Pitman · May 29, 2014 3:43 am

An anti-government protester reads a newspaper during a gathering Thursday, May 22, 2014 in Bangkok, Thailand. Journalists and rights groups have criticized the army for primarily targeting the press rather than protesters, underscoring the precarious state of press freedom in Thailand in the wake of Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha's unexpected declaration of martial law this week and his decision Thursday to take control of the government. Of the 12 edicts issued Tuesday by the newly formed Peace and Order Maintaining Command, the military committee set up to oversee the army intervention, at least five concern media censorship. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

In Thailand, press early casualty of Army takeover

Todd Pitman · May 22, 2014 3:03 pm

A Thai soldier checks barbed wire while guarding a road near pro-government demonstration site on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand Wednesday, May 21, 2014. Thailand's army chief Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha assumed the role of mediator Wednesday by summoning the country's key political rivals for face-to-face talks one day after imposing martial law. The meeting ended without any resolution, however, underscoring the profound challenge the army faces in trying to end the country's crisis. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)

With martial law, Thai government nearly powerless

Todd Pitman · May 22, 2014 2:54 am