2023 Report of the Ratsadonprasong Fund, Part 5: Drives in the Maze
A debriefing on our donation drives, with the hope that there will be no more drive in circles in the maze of the law and its practitioners.
A debriefing on our donation drives, with the hope that there will be no more drive in circles in the maze of the law and its practitioners.
Exploring the language used by the prosecution, the defense, and the judges in cases involving Article 112.
Detention timelines of the 48 detainees we supported, and flowcharts on how to send money to a detainee: expectation vs reality
When defendants find themselves in the recesses of the judicial maze, the shapes and forms of our support become complicated in turn.
Where does bail money go after leaving the judicial maze? This chapter has answers: to defendants, to detainees, and to being forfeited.
Rather than cookie-cutter, stifling, or useless, her communist education was a crucible of character that allowed her to be of use.
We’re back with another Annual Report! Under the theme “In the Maze of Rules,” we compile not only movements but also hiccups and halts in the movement of money and people through the judicial process.
Kicking off a series of volunteer bailor stories with questions about the bailor “profession”
Where there’s a will, there’s a way. A chronicle of collective action to signal that politicians’ promises of constitutional overhaul are not to be broken nor cheapened.
A singer and busker tells the story of his political awakening and how he uses his vocal talent to liven up political rallies (with video evidence)
Three newspaper articles that reflect the circumstances of women in Thai society in the early 1920s in the home, on public transport, in Bangkok, in the provinces, and in the code of laws.
To what do the people turn when they can’t rely on the system? In this part 2 of selections from century-old newspapers, we offer three answers: to sacred beings, to the press, and to crime.
Three articles from century-old Thai newspapers on the aristocracy’s corruption and the double standards in taxation enforcement, both between Bangkok and outlying regions and between ordinary people and the high-born.
Siamese people’s voices, 10 years before the end of absolute monarchy. Collected by Nopporn Suwanpanich. Passed down to and introduced by Chertalay Suwanpanich.
We close out the report with maps showing the geographical distribution of the Fund’s assistance to defendants and accuseds
Since 2010, the Tam Tang group has been advocating for safe abortion access in Thailand. Tam Tang translates to ‘forging a path’; the name plays on its near homophone tham thaeng ‘to have an abortion.’
We continue our annual report with highlights from our bail-related expenses
World premiere of a song written in Bangkok Remand Prison in July 2015. Eight years later, we present an eight-minute track that fuses commemoration with imagination, foreignness with familiarity.
At the end of 2022, bail money from the Ratsadonprasong Fund remaining in Thai courts countrywide amounted to 56,428,500 baht (over 1.6 million US dollars). This amount is the combined bail of 947 cases.
Four fundraising phenomenons, where the people carried the fund through danger.