Thai law prohibits torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, treatment or punishment, but the NGOs and law continues that some of the members from time to time of torture and the fight to obtain confessions from suspects. In 2004 there were news reports many cases in which citizens accused police of using brutality the threat of false accusations and extort bribes. Investigations were in most cases, some of which the accused police officers were suspended pending the results of internal investigations.
Senator in Thailand, based on a person as a witness in the process against four suspects accused Muslims belong to Jemaah Islamiya, said that during his care of the bags the suspects were “leaders, and they have been successes wheels on the back and abdomen. The four were acquitted by the Criminal Court in June and then released. The police have opened an internal investigation, but at the end of the year no criminal allegations received.
On 15 October in the province of Tak, a policeman said at the time drunk forced his way into a house, threatened and beat an elderly woman, and tried, against one of 18 years, the Burmese migrant workers. The policeman had already extortion of money from the daughter. The two women in Burma, but a complaint was filed on their behalf with the National Commission.
In March 2004, five suspects in 2004 in the Narathiwat army camp raid claims that the bike police beatings and electric shocks administered, in order to extort confessions. The suspects have a formal complaint with the Justice Department through its lawyer, Somchai Neelapaichjit who disappeared and presumed death. The police have opened an internal investigation of suspected abuse, but at the end of the year no criminal allegations received.
It is not known to develop within the police in the investigation of the claims in November 2004 by a couple who were beaten up and stolen in detention for 102 days without charge at the police Lumpini Bangkok.
In November 2004 the police in the province of Ayutthaya bike had electric shocks and beatings to force a man, the genitals of a confession after the verdict because of the suspicion of theft, 23 members of the police were sent to Bangkok as part of the incident until an internal investigation . In December, the plaintiff withdrew its request, to an amicable agreement.
Have fun on vacation – but not stupid. Check the laws in Thailand before starting – May be they are from your home country. You do not want a holiday in Thailand prison.