WorldBANGKOK (Reuters) - Human Rights Watch on Friday urged Thai authorities to drop legal cases against 12 people arrested over Facebook posts they shared about a British tourist’s complaint that she had been raped on a holiday island. Police arrested the 12 Thai Facebook users this week for violating a cyber-crime law, in connection with their posts about what police have deemed to be an untrue complaint of rape. Police had been investigating an accusation by a 19-year-old British tourist who said she had been raped while on holiday on the island of Koh Tao in June. The British tourist, whose identity has not been revealed, reported to police in June that she was robbed on the island. Police deny this and say their investigation determined her complaint of rape was not true.

Source: Sunday Times September 07, 2018 06:20 UTC