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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Thai royalists ask that Amnesty International office be shut

Panumas Sanguanwong

Royalist activists in Thailand say they will present a petition with 1.2 million signatures to the government on Thursday calling for it to shut down the country’s branch of the human rights organization Amnesty International.

The activists, members of various small nationalist groups, say Amnesty International is a threat to the country’s peace and security because it criticized a court ruling that said calls for reform of the country’s constitutional monarchy are illegal.

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