Koh Tao investigators have until Nov 24 to explain themselves: NHRC
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Niran Phithakwatchara, a member of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), said yesterday that police had until November 24 to explain the case of two Myanmar suspects being allegedly assaulted into confessing to the murder of two Britons on Koh Tao.
If police fail to meet the new deadline, he said at the November 26 NHRC meeting he will propose that the commission lodge a complaint and take legal action against concerned police officers in accordance with the NHRC Act’s Article 34.
The NHRC sub-committee on civil and political rights chaired by Niran had summoned the investigators five times for an explanation on the allegation, he said. The sub-committee had also submitted its interrogation guidelines to affirm that the inquiry was not related to who killed the two British tourists, but was to do with the concerned police team’s working methods and if they resorted to beating the suspects as alleged, he said.
