Sunai Phasuk

A Thai man who "liked" a doctored photo of the country's king on Facebook is being held incommunicado at a military base, the ruling junta said today, as rights groups warned he risked becoming another victim of "enforced disappearance."

Thailand has sent nearly 100 Uighurs Muslims back to China, a move likely to anger Turkey and exacerbate Ankara's row with Beijing over its treatment of the Turkic language-speaking and largely Muslim minority.

Anti-government protesters blocked voting in dozens of constituencies in tense Thai elections on Sunday overshadowed by pre-poll bloodshed, an opposition boycott and fears of protracted political limbo.

A Thai man who "liked" a doctored photo of the country's king on Facebook is being held incommunicado at a military base, the ruling junta said today, as rights groups warned he risked becoming another victim of "enforced disappearance."

Thailand has sent nearly 100 Uighurs Muslims back to China, a move likely to anger Turkey and exacerbate Ankara's row with Beijing over its treatment of the Turkic language-speaking and largely Muslim minority.

Anti-government protesters blocked voting in dozens of constituencies in tense Thai elections on Sunday overshadowed by pre-poll bloodshed, an opposition boycott and fears of protracted political limbo.