More frequently, the victims are less well known - students, teachers, union members, religious workers and members of peasant groups.
Most foreign religious workers are granted temporary 3-month missionary worker visas.
The 1997 Law appeared to change the visa regime for religious and other foreign workers.
My parents, religious lay workers, are vehemently against both.
He was a religious and social worker and president of the local Liberal association.
Christianity in Thailand began with the work of missionaries or foreign religious workers.
The other bus picked up the religious workers, including many nuns, and headed west.
"Nothing has changed around here," said a religious worker based in the area.
Approval for visits by foreign religious workers often involved a lengthy bureaucratic process.
He was quickly issued a green card as a religious worker, an action the Government calls another blunder.