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112 The Series
Nat is a tall, slender, and energetic man. I have known him for nearly two years, but I cannot remember when and where we met for the first time. Perhaps the court, or if not, then the prison. Places where others do not want to be caught.
Nat told me that his interest in politics...
112 The Series
Translated by Tyrell Haberkorn
This is a series of stories about people who are prosecuted under Article 112 of the Criminal Code, or the lèse majesté law, from a perspective rarely seen by society. The stories weave together narratives about the personal...
The Article 112 case of Thanet (pseudonym) is not a high-profile political case. Thanet is a person at the edge of society who does possesses neither secure economic or social standing, nor a fully sound mind.
At dawn on 2 July 2014, soldiers and police raided Thanet’s house and arrested...
No one anticipated that simply expressing one’s political views or penning political poetry would cause one to be hunted down by soldiers. No one anticipated that these things would lead one’s family to live in terror. But this is what happened in Thailand after the National Council for Peace and...
A taxi driver’s working conditions compel him to sit alone in a narrow, confined space for the entire day. Many taxi drivers strike up conversation with their passengers to relieve their loneliness. The conversations are often about ordinary issues, such as the weather, sports, jobs, and politics...
