Reporting Wanchalearm’s disappearance

We thought readers might find it useful to have a listing of recent media reports on the enforced disappearance in Cambodia of Thai political activist Wanchalearm Satsaksit:

• Bangkok Post, 14 June 2020: “Wanchalearm was an overstayer”
• ASEAN Today/The Cambodia Daily, 13 June 2020: “Wanchalearm Satsaksit’s abduction in Cambodia: How they covered it”
• Khaosod, 13 June 2020: “Opinion: An Open Letter to UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador”
• The Star, 12 June 2020: “Vanishing Thai activists nothing new”
• Lowy Interpreter, 12 June 2020: “Thailand: Another dissenter disappears”
• The Nation, 12 June 2020: “Students demand answers on disappeared activist”
• Street Art News, 12 June 2020: “Headache Stencil Mural Taken Down in Bangkok, Thailand”
• Pattaya Mail, 11 June 2020: “Thai government set up panel to probe case of missing Thai activist in Cambodia”
• Southeast Asia Globe, 11 June 2020: “Card swapping: The Mekong countries’ problem with activist kidnapping”
• Al Jazeera, 11 June 2020: “Thai gov’t pressured to acknowledge activist’s disappearance”
• Khaosod, 11 June 2020: “UN Joins Growing Calls to Locate Disappeared Activist”
• The ASEAN Post, 11 June 2020: “ASEAN’s Missing Activists: Where Are They?”
• Thailand Mirror, 10 June 2020: “Ex-intelligence chief accuses anti-royalists of implicating revered institution in activist’s disappearance”
• Thai PBS, 10 June 2020: “I can’t breathe: Uproar after yet another Thai activist in exile disappears”
• Bangkok Post, 11 June 2020: “Activist no security threat: Don”
• Thai Enquirer, 10 June 2020: “Thammasat’s law faculty pressures government to investigate the abduction of Wanchalerm”
• Thai PBS, 10 June 2020: “Thai Foreign Minister says Government cannot do anything about Wanchalerm’s case”
• Thai Enquirer, 10 June 2020: “Opinion: Government officials and pro-government media are trying to destroy Wanchalearm’s character; it is nothing new”
• BenarNews, 9 June 2020: “Cambodian Authorities Probing Thai Activist’s Disappearance, Police Sayhttps://www.benarnews.org/english/news/thai/missing-activist-06092020190112.html”
• The Nation, 9 June 2020: “Cambodia agrees to investigate Wanchalerm’s disappearance”
• AP, 9 June 2020: “Cambodia says it’s willing to probe Thai exile’s case”
• Khaosod, 9 June 2020: “Security Officers Take Down Mural, Posters of Missing Activist”
• Bangkok Post, 9 June 2020: “Petition filed in missing activist case”
• Bangkok Post, 9 June 2020: “Disappearance sees whispers turn to outrage”
• Thomson Reuters, 8 June 2020: “Thai exile’s kidnapping sparks protests over ‘missing’ critics”
• Khaosod, 8 June 2020: “National Rights Body Says It’s Monitoring Activist Abduction Cases”
• Bangkok Post, 8 June 2020: “Former beauty queen joins call to find missing activist”
• Bangkok Post, 8 June 2020: “Govt involvement urged in activist ‘abduction’ case”
• Khaosod, 8 June 2020: “UNHCR Says No Comment on Activist’s Abduction”
• Khaosod, 8 June 2020: “Police Chief Faces Inquiry Over Dissident’s Kidnapping”
• Bangkok Post, 7 June 2020: “Activist saga casts dark stain”
• The Nation, 7 June 2020: “Foundation takes up case of Prayut govt critic abducted in Cambodia”
• France24, 7 June 2020: “Family of missing Thai activist pleads for release”
• The Nation, 6 June 2020: “Sister of abducted govt critic has little hope he is alive”
• Bangkok Post, 5 June 2020: “Exiled Thai activist abducted in Cambodia”
• VOA, 5 June 2020: “Eyewitnesses Confirm Thai Pro-Democracy Activist’s Abduction in Phnom Penh”
• Thailand News Line, 5 June 2020: “Exiled Thai political activist abducted by gunmen in Phnom Penh”
• Khaosod, 5 June 2020: “Police Deny Role in Dissident’s Disappearance in Cambodia”
• HRW, 5 June 2020: “Cambodia: Thai Activist Abducted in Phnom Penh”
• Prachatai, 4 June 2020: “Argh, can’t breathe: Thai political exile kidnapped in Phnom Penh”

The following report is from the period immediately after the 2014 military coup:

• Prachatai, 8 June 2014: “Arrest warrants issued for 10 who failed to report to the military”