Human rights legacy: A visitor looks at a photo of human rights lawyer Somchai Neelapaijit at an exhibition at the Pridi Banomyong Institute. Pawinee Chumsri, a lawyer with the Thai Lawyers for Human Rights, has won the outstanding human rights award given by the Somchai Neelapaijit Memorial Fund. The award was announced on Saturday along with three other prestigious human rights awards to mark the 13th anniversary of the disappearance of human rights lawyer Somchai Neelapaijit. Ms Pawinee won the Somchai Neelapaijit Award as a lawyer who has dedicated her legal career to the fight for human rights in the restive southern border provinces as well as cases involving politics after the 2014 coup. The Somchai Neelapaijit Memorial Fund was established after Mr Somchai went missing in 2014 while representing five southern Muslim insurgents who claimed they had been tortured by police.

Source: Bangkok Post March 11, 2017 23:38 UTC