Thailand: Fear for safety: Wasant Panich (m)

Index Number: ASA 39/010/2006
Date Published: 3 July 2006
Categories: Asia And The Pacific, Thailand

On 28 June leading human rights lawyer and National Human Rights Commissioner Wasant Panich managed to avoid a possible abduction attempt. It is believed that the possible abduction attempt was designed to intimidate him from his human rights work, potentially including the investigation of mass graves discovered earlier this year in southern Thailand. Wasant Panich remains in danger