Thailand downgraded to ‘not free’ in global survey
Freedom House points to FFP dissolution and suppression of protests as factors
Thailand has been downgraded again to “not free” from “partly free” in the latest global rankings by Freedom House, a US-based democracy advocacy group.
The court-ordered dissolution of the opposition Future Forward Party in 2020 and the continuing crackdown on pro-democracy groups were among the factors contributing to the change in the country’s status, according to the Freedom in the World 2021 report released this week.
The report assigned Thailand a total score of 30 out of 100, down from 32 out of 100 in the previous survey covering 2019. In 2018 and 2017, the country was deemed “not free”. The slight improvement in 2019 partly…
