Human Rights Watch reported on June 5 that self-exiled Thai dissident Wanchalearm Satsaksit was snatched off the street in Phnom Penh the day before. Cambodian police have ruled out a probe into his alleged disappearance
Cambodian police on Friday ruled out a probe into the alleged disappearance of a self-exiled Thai democracy activist after a rights group said he had been abducted in broad daylight from outside his Phnom Penh apartment.
Wanchalearm Satsaksit, a sharp critic of the Thai government led by ex-general Prayut Chan-O-Cha, was dragged into a black car on Thursday evening, according to Human Rights Watch.
Wanchalearm is wanted in Thailand for allegedly breaching the criminal Computer Crimes Act by running an acerbic anti-government Facebook page.
Since a May 2014 coup, Thailand has vowed to track down pro-democracy critics, especially those accused of attacking the kingdom’s unassailable monarchy.
«We don’t where HRW got the information,» Khieu Sopheak told AFP, adding «there’s a lot of fake news out there».
Thailand’s government emerged from the 2019 elections but remains a legacy of the coup five years earlier with a cabinet stacked with ex-generals and their military allies.
We don’t where HRW got the information … there’s a lot of fake news out there
Khieu Sopheak
This article was written by AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
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