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Police accused of torturing family in drug case

Mon Panthasaen, on the floor, demonstrates how she was tortured by police using a plastic bag nearly 15 years ago, when accused of having drugs in possession in Pathum Thani’s Thanyaburi district, at the Central Investigation Bureau on Monday. (Photo supplied)

The deputy chief investigator at Thanyaburi police station in Pathum Thani province and 12 other police officers have been accused of torturing four members of a family for information in a drug case which dates back almost 15 years.

The husband served 14 years in prison, but always insisted he was innocent. 

The accusation was made in a complaint filed on Monday with the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) complaints centre by Mon Panthasaen, 48, her 53-year-old husband, identified by police only as “Kluay”, and their two daughters, aged 24 and…

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