Please Return Sombath Safely: Come and Join “the One Year after the Enforced Disappearance of Sombath Somphone”, 11-13 and 15 December 2013 in Bangkok

15 December 2012 was the day Sombath Somphone disappeared in Vientiane, Lao PDR. 15 December 2013 will be the one year of his disappearance, and he is not yet return to us and his family.

Please come and join us in “the One Year after the Enforced Disappearance of Sombath Somphone”, 11-13 and 15 December 2013 in Bangkok, Thailand.

Evening of Wednesday, 11 December 2013

Starting from 7pm

Panel Discussion on “Transparency, Accountability, Human Rights and State Power”

at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand (FCCT)

Maneeya Center, Childlom, Bangkok

Panelists

Ng Shul Meng, Wife of Sombath Somphone

Pablo Solon, Executive Director of FOCUS on the Global South

Evelyn Balais Serrano, Executive Director of Forum-Asia

*Translation available

**This event is organized by FCCT. Admission fee for non member is 350 baht

For more information: FCCT, Tel: 66-02-652-0580

Friday, 13 December 2013

09.00am – 12.00am

Panel Discussion and Exibition on “One Year Sombath, Ten Years Somchai: Questioning Enforced Disappearance in ASEAN”

At Front Building of Student Christian Center, Bangkok (near BTS Ratchathewi)

Panelists – As Families and Human Rights Activists

Angkana Neelapaijit, Justice for Peace

Dr. Nirun Phitakwachara, Chairman of the Thai Human Rights Commission

Pablo Solon, Executive Director of FOCUS on the Global South

*Translation available

**Free admission

Sunday, 15 December 2013

Starting from 10am

In front of the Embassy of Lao PDR

There will be activities to honor and call for Sombath Somphone’s, a prominent Lao Senior community developer