Police vow to abandon Muslim student probesThe Special Branch Bureau (SBB) has agreed to stop seeking information on Muslim students, the House committee on law, justice and human rights said on Wednesday. Rangsiman Rome, committee spokesman, said the panel was given assurances by the SBB that it would abandon the controversial practice. The committee is probing the SSB in response to a petition from the Muslim Students Federation of Thailand (Mustfeth), which said the measure violated human rights. Last month, Mustfeth took issue with a letter that the SBB sent to colleges, seeking detailed information about their Muslim students, including their extracurricular activities. The measure singled out Muslim students for surveillance, and interfered with the education institutions' affairs, it said.

Source: Bangkok Post October 02, 2019 23:01 UTC