{"id":8114,"date":"2019-09-18T14:19:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T14:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/8114-thai-pm-says-police-monitoring-of-muslim-students-needed-for-security\/"},"modified":"2019-09-18T14:19:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T14:19:20","slug":"thai-pm-says-police-monitoring-of-muslim-students-needed-for-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/8114-thai-pm-says-police-monitoring-of-muslim-students-needed-for-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai PM says police monitoring of Muslim students needed for security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">Thailand&#8217;s prime minister defended police for requesting information about minority Muslim students from universities around the country after the move was called discriminatory and illegal.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>Thailand&#8217;s prime minister defended police for requesting information about minority Muslim students from universities around the country after the move was called discriminatory and illegal.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Tuesday the police request, which follows a series of bomb blasts in the capital Bangkok in August blamed on Muslim suspects, was needed to build a national security database.<\/p>\n<p>An official letter from police, shared online by former rights commissioner Angkhana Neelapaijit, asked a university to supply information about the numbers, place of origin, sect affiliation and other details about Muslim-organized student groups. The name of the university was blotted out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an interference to personal rights and a discrimination based on religion,&#8221; Angkhana said, adding freedom of religion and the right to privacy were guaranteed by the Thai constitution.<\/p>\n<p>About 90 percent of Thais are Buddhist, though Muslims are a majority in three southern provinces bordering Malaysia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand&#8217;s prime minister defended police for requesting information about minority Muslim students from universities around the country after the move was called discriminatory and illegal. Thailand&#8217;s prime minister defended police for requesting information about minority Muslim students from universities around the country after the move was called discriminatory and illegal. 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