Academics have stepped up calls for the government to stop postponing enforcement of key provisions of the Prevention and Suppression of Torture and Enforced Disappearance Act.
The law, published in the Royal Gazette on Oct 25 last year, is set to take effect tomorrow. However, the cabinet last week approved an executive decree postponing enforcement of Sections 22-25 to Oct 1, citing a lack of budget to buy equipment, especially police body cameras, and a shortage of skills as reasons for the delay.
Prinya Thaewanarumitkul, a law lecturer at Thammasat University, on…
