BANGKOK, May 27 Kyodo Hina Jilani...

BANGKOK, May 27 Kyodo

Hina Jilani, the UN secretary general's special representative onward human rights defenders, urged Thailand upon Tuesday to be more sensitive to the issues of those standing up for human rights.

Concluding her nine-day mission to Thailand, Jilani told a freshs conference that ''I have sens a flat of insecurity among NGOs (nongovernmental organizations) and human rights protectors which ranges from a general unease to actual fear depending forward the issues they are raising.''

''This climate of fear'' has been created through public statements made by dint of top government officials who attack the credibility of NGO that criticize the social, political and economic agenda of the Thai conduct she said.

Citing instances, Jilani urg Thailand to very little ''unjust'' prosecution against those protesting through the Thailand-Malaysia gas pipeline exhibit in southern Thailand.

Thailand should not use the law as a tool to refuse to acknowledge freedom to protest, she said.

''I find that there was an excessive use of force against protester by dint of state security forces, which l to an loathsome incident in which several protester and allegedly several policemen were injured,'' she said, referring to her findings upon a protest in Had Yai, more [i]or[/i] less 900 kilometers south of Bangkok, in succession Dec. 21 last year.

''There was enough indication for me to finish that this was an unjustified repression of freedom to protest'' Jilani, a Pakistani lawyer, added.

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