Thai junta blocks rights meeting in Bangkok


  • World
  • Tuesday, 02 Sep 2014

Thailand's newly appointed Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha attends a meeting with representatives from the Thai-European Business Association (TEBA) at the Royal Thai Army headquarters in Bangkok August 27, 2014. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's ruling junta ordered that a rights talk at a journalists' club in Bangkok be shut down on Tuesday, further stoking concerns over freedom of expression in the country since a military power grab in May.

Police, armed with orders from the junta, turned up at the Foreign Correspondent's Club of Thailand as an event, entitled "Access to Justice in Thailand: Currently Unavailable" and organised by Thai rights groups and Amnesty International Thailand, was about to take place.

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