CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Fri Jan 22, 2021 12:49 am Edit: Another Thai activist was kidnapped for 24 hours before being released last weekend.

Pro-democracy Thai man recounts his mysterious kidnapping
January 19, 2021
published at 2:43 AMThe Nation/Asia News Network

Mongkol Santimetakul, a member of the pro-democracy protesters’ security unit, on Sunday (Jan 17) recounted his kidnapping on Saturday (Jan 16) night by a group of mysterious men.

Mongkol’s nightlong disappearance saw members of the pro-democracy group and guards gather outside the Internal Security Operations Command (Isoc) in Bangkok's Dusit district on Sunday morning to demand answers.

Mongkol had apparently been pulled into a van as he was walking out of a convenience store on Saturday night by a mysterious man who then proceeded to send out messages on the guard's phone claiming he was an Isoc officer.

“All that night, this man kept ordering me to sign a document, which I refused because I could not read it,” he said.

“He also issued threats demanding that I stop participating in pro-democracy rallies.”

Mongkol said there were several men, one of whom spoke in the southern Thai dialect, adding that he had not been tortured.

As for the post reading “help” on his Facebook page, Mongkol said he did not post that message because the group had seized his smartphone, adding that he had to give them his phone password to save his life.

“Later, one of the men said they will drop me off in the border area, but then apologised because they had ‘misunderstood’.

“He then covered my head with a jacket before pushing me out of the van,” he said. “When I removed the jacket, I found myself at Soi Pang Pu 29 in Samut Prakan province and I asked staff at a convenience store nearby to contact my friends to pick me up.”

After Mongkol recounted his experience with the press, an attorney from the Thai Lawyers for Human Rights took him to file a police complaint at the Pak Nam Police Station.

Separately, Move Forward Party MP Rangsiman Rome said this case is similar to the forced disappearance of Thai activist Wanchalearm Satsaksit, who was abducted from a street in Phnom Penh on June 4 last year.
https://www.asiaone.com/asia/pro-democr ... kidnapping

John Bingham wrote: ↑Fri Jan 22, 2021 1:42 am

Splashback wrote: ↑Fri Jan 22, 2021 1:07 am Holy shit! He lives? And how about the others? That's great news.

I think you might want to read the article, Wanchalearm Satsaksithas not been found.

Thai authorities have made no progress in the investigation of Wanchalearm’s disappearance since his family submitted their information to the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) a year ago, his sister Sitanan said on May 7. “We will discuss what to do next on June 4,” she added.

“The Cambodian police did not conduct a proper investigation,” she said at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand in early February. “I felt that officials in Cambodia did not care about the evidence we presented. They said if we could not provide stronger evidence, they would not investigate the case at all.”

Sitanan says Thai authorities have shown an equal lack of enthusiasm, declining to give her any information or to conduct a formal inquiry into her brother’s disappearance.

Alex wrote: ↑Thu Jun 08, 2023 9:08 am Hopefully a new Thai government, if and when it comes into office, will make a serious effort to investigate this properly.