(Today, 9:37 am)
The hostages released from Hamas captivity in Gaza last night are receiving care at hospitals throughout the country. The 12 Israelis are at Soroka Medical Center, Sheba Medical Center, Ichilov Hospital, and Schneider Children’s Hospital. The four released Thai citizens are at Shamir (Assaf Harofeh) Medical Center.
(12 hours ago)
Raz Ben Ami (57)
Yarden Roman (36)
Liat Atzili (49)
Moran Stela Yanai (40)
Liam Or (18)
Itay Regev (18)
Ofir Engel (17)
Amit Shani (16)
Gali Tarshansky (13)
Raaya Rotem (54)
Yelena Trupanob (50)
Irena Tati (73)
4 Thai Nationals have also been released tonight.
The Red Cross announces that its staff has successfully transferred 12 free hostages from Hamas in Gaza.
“We have been able to carry out this operation thanks to our neutral intermediary role,” the Red Cross tweets.
Footage shows some of the hostages being transferred to the Red Cross as crowds jeer and whistle.
Hostages who were abducted by Hamas gunmen during the Oct 7 attack on Israel, give a thumbs up as they are handed over by Hamas militants to members of the International Committee of the Red Cross, as part of a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel amid a temporary truce, in an unknown location in the Gaza Strip, in this screengrab taken from video released Nov 26, 2023.
Gegenwind von Konservativen und Militär
There was heavy police presence across the downtown area with riot police and a water cannon truck stationed at the Ratchaprasong intersection near major shopping malls.
The arrests come after protesters returned to the streets over the weekend, calling for the prime minister to resign and for the monarchy to be reformed.
A youth-led democracy movement that kicked off in Thailand last year drew tens of thousands of people to rallies demanding the resignation of Prayut, the former army chief who came to power in a 2014 coup.
The movement broke long-held taboos by demanding reforms to Thailand‘s monarchy, and scores of protesters have been hit with multiple royal defamation charges, which carry 15-year jail terms.
The demonstrations comes after parliament this week failed to pass a bill to rewrite the military-backed constitution, one of the protesters’ main demands.
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in the Thai capital on Saturday evening to demand that authorities release some protest leaders from jail, defying an order on late Friday banning public gatherings in the city.
n a sign of the EU’s frustration – after Pfizer also announced a temporary slowdown in vaccine supplies earlier in January – EU health commissioner Stella Kyriakides proposed forcing drug makers to register in advance their Covid-19 vaccine exports, so the bloc can keep track of what they are doing.
Student-led rallies have rocked the kingdom since July, with protesters calling for the removal of Premier Prayut Chan-O-Cha — a former army chief who came into power through a 2014 coup — and a rewrite to the military-scripted constitution.
A court on Friday ordered the release of Panupong “Mike” Jadnok, Panusaya “Rung” Sithijirawattanakul and Parit “Penguin” Chiwarak who have been in custody since mid-October on sedition charges — but police sought to question them over outstanding arrest warrants.
On Monday, protesters are planning to march to the German Embassy in a message to the King, who is currently in Thailand, but spends much of his time in Germany.
Versammlungen von mehr als fünf Menschen in der Hauptstadt Bangkok sowie die Veröffentlichung von Botschaften im Internet, „welche die nationale Sicherheit beeinträchtigen können“, wurden damit verboten. Am Vortag hatten erneut tausende Menschen in Bangkok gegen die Regierung demonstriert.
Police in the Khlong Luang district of Thailand’s Pathum Thani province held a group of Thammasat University students in custody today (Saturday), after they seized about 45,000 books, about reform of the Thai Monarchy, which were apparently intended for distribution to protesters at Sanam Luang.
The mostly young demonstrators, who began the day by assembling under a steady rain at the Tha Prachan campus of Thammasat University nearby, have also vowed to press for reform of the monarchy, an issue that has provoked strong reactions from more conservative segments of society.
However, an increasing number of seasoned protest veterans from the red-shirt United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), after keeping a low profile for the past few years, have decided it’s time to throw their support behind the movement.
In lead up to the start of today’s protest, expected to draw a large crowd, Panasaya Sitthichirawattanakul, one of the organisers from the Thammasat Alliance group, says that the Thai monarchy will again” definitely be raised” at the University’s Tha Prachan campus.
She came to the attention of the public, and police, for daring to read out the 10-point manifesto at the August 10 rally, that time held at the Thammasat University’s Rangsit campus.
Vor der geplanten Großdemo gegen Thailands Regierung haben Hunderte Studenten das Uni-Gelände in Bangkok gestürmt. „Es lebe die Demokratie“, riefen sie und brachen die Tore auf.
Laut Auskunft der bundeseigenen GIZ ist es das Ziel der deutschen Entwicklungshilfeorganisation, alternativ Laos‘ „Integration in den ASEAN-Wirtschaftsraum sowie Zugang zu Krediten und anderen Finanzdienstleistungen“ zu fördern.[13] Im deutschen Interesse dürfte dabei sein, dass derzeit der mit Abstand größte Export- und Importpartner des Landes das südostasiatische Nachbarland Thailand ist. Mit dem von einer Militärjunta regierten Land pflegt Deutschland bereits seit Jahrzehnten enge Beziehungen.
Das Treffen zeigt offenbar, dass die Kooperation zwischen den drei Ländern in der Frage der Denuklearisierung Nordkoreas ohne Einschränkungen fortgesetzt wird, obwohl Japan heute die Streichung Südkoreas aus seiner weißen Liste der bevorzugten Exportziele beschloss.
Lee Do-hoon and his U.S. counterpart, Stephen Biegun, met Wednesday in Bangkok on the sidelines of a series of multilateral meetings involving the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
The internet was soon alight with rumours and speculation, which authorities moved quickly to dispel. For a start, they, said, no areas of the city had been closed.
As for the identity of the perpetrators, army chief Gen Apirat Kongsompong said the usual suspects were involved, without naming names.
Laut Polizei explodierten drei der sechs Bomben im Regierungskomplex in Chaeng Wattana.
The Indian Air Force operation inside Pakistan was also an electoral campaign issue highlighted extensively by the BJP and Modi as an achievement of a muscular security policy.
Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi suggested the reason was India’s internal politics, after Modi had made “Pakistan bashing” the central theme of his election campaign.
Bei der ersten Parlamentswahl in Thailand nach einem Militärputsch vor fünf Jahren liegt das Lager der amtierenden Militärregierung vorn.
Am heutigen Mittwoch wird Thailands Premierminister Prayut gemeinsam mit hochrangigen Vertretern der thailändischen Wirtschaft vom Asien-Pazifik-Ausschuss der Deutschen Wirtschaft in Berlin empfangen. Angekündigt ist für das Treffen auch der Parlamentarische Staatssekretär beim Bundesminister für Wirtschaft und Energie, Oliver Wittke (CDU). „Im Rahmen der Veranstaltung werden thailändische Vertreter Auskunft über die jüngsten wirtschaftspolitischen Maßnahmen geben“, heißt es beim Wirtschaftsverband Ostasiatischer Verein, „und gemeinsam mit deutschen Unternehmensvertretern die Potenziale für weitere Kooperationsprojekte erörtern.
(8.5.2018) Some of what they did to me in that prison was so awful I can’t talk about it. They hit me in the abdomen just where the baby was. To move me, they bound me to a stretcher from head to toe, like a mummy. I was sure I would shortly be killed.
For the rendition flight to Libya, I was taped to a stretcher again. The tape caught the corner of my eye. It stayed that way, my eye taped open, tears streaming down my face, for more than 14 hours.
After I spent several weeks in a Libyan prison, Colonel Qaddafi’s spies dragged a crib into my cell. I was gravely ill. If I lived through this, I thought, I would be forced to give birth, alone, in this filthy cell.