TWO female activists who have been on a severe hunger strike since Jan. 18 were released from detention for one month this afternoon (Feb. 7) after the Director of Thammasat Hospital petitioned the court that their lives are in danger, Matichon newspaper said. Upon being persuaded by their parents and lawyers last evening Tantawan
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Privy Council head urged to defuse life-and-death crisis over 2 hunger strikers
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIVY COUNCIL PRESIDENT Surayud Chulanont was today (Jan.31) petitioned to immediately help put an end to a life-and-death crisis involving a couple of young women on a severe hunger strike. Thammasat University’s Sociology & Anthropology lecturer Anusorn Unno who submitted the letter of petition endorsed by 91 university lecturers, university
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