Magazine editor and human rights defender Somyot Prueksakasemsuk must be immediately released from 17-month pre-trial detention, says Amnesty International.

Amnesty has called on the new Thai government to bring the perpetrators of past human rights violations to justice, including protest-related deaths.

Christian Aid are focusing their Christmas appeal on the 42 million people who are displaced, driven from their homes by disaster, war, persecution or hunger.

Anti-government protesters in Thailand are withdrawing from their barricaded camp in Bangkok to avoid further deaths and bloodshed following the vicious military assault on them.