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Hunger-striking activists in hospital

Rights groups call for end to ‘arbitrary detention and judicial harassment’

Tantawan Tuatulanon (above) and colleague Orawan Phuphong were taken to a prison hospital on Friday, the third day of their hunger strike to demand the release on bail of fellow political activists. (Image from iLaw Thailand YouTube channel)

Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) has renewed its call for an end to arbitrary detention and judicial harassment of political activists, as a prison hunger strike by two of those activists enters its fourth day.

Orawan Phuphong and Tantawan Tuatulanon have been detained at the Central Women’s Correctional Institution since Monday, after appearing in court to revoke their own bail….

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