Panel to ensure anti-torture law compliance

Rights activists, holding a banner with the message “Stop creating fear by making people disappear”, rally at parliament in September 2021 to press the House of Representatives to speed up consideration of a law against torture and forced disappearance, which ultimately took 10 years to pass. (Photo: Chanat Katanyu)

The government has set up a panel to lay down regulations to ensure state agencies comply with the Prevention and Suppression of Torture and Enforced Disappearance Act.

The regulations must be in place to ensure standard operating procedures, Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam said on Wednesday before chairing the first meeting of the national committee on anti-torture.