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Thai protesters allege recent tortures under police custody | Human Rights News

Once the interrogation room doors shut behind Attasith Nussa, eight plainclothes officers descended upon him quickly.

The leading officer approached the 35-year-old Thai pro-democracy protester and asked him if he came alone to the October 29 vigil in Bangkok.

“I drove my motorcycle here alone,” Attasith recalled to Al Jazeera as telling his interrogators.

Attasith said the same officer, dressed in a button-up shirt, then replied, “‘Well it’s good that you travelled alone. This way we can say you died in a motorcycle accident when they ask what happened to you.’”

Not long after the verbal threats started, violence ensued. Over the next hour, Attasith endured a brutal torture session.

The incident has left him angry and confused. He now wants to change the police system so this doesn’t continue to happen to anyone else.

It all started when police broke up a quiet…

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