<p>On Saturday (31 October), activists held a memorial for Nuamthong Praiwan, a taxi driver who intentionally crashed his vehicle into a tank and later committed suicide to protest the 2006 military coup.&nbsp; The event was held at the overpass where he hung himself.</p>

<p>Student activist Patsaravalee Tanakitvibulpon has been indicted on a royal defamation charge related to a speech she gave at a protest on 24 March 2021, in which she said that the monarchy must reform itself in order to survive.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Two young activists from the gender equality activist group Feminist&rsquo;s Liberation Front Thailand went to hear the charges against them at the Thong Lo Police Station on Monday (6 September), where the police attempted to take DNA samples and took them to court in a detention truck.</p>

<p>A year after the disappearance of Thai activist <a href="https://prachatai.com/english/category/wanchalearm-satsaksit">Wanchalearm Satsaksit</a>, his family still waits for justice while official investigations seem to have stalled.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Prachatai speaks to Sitanun Satsaksit, sister of missing activist in exile Wanchalearm Satsaksit,&nbsp;about the progress in her brother&#39;s case, and how her life has changed since she made the decision to do everything she can to find and call for justice for her brother.</p>

<p>&nbsp;A year after Wanchalearm Satsaksit vanished, authorities say there is no proof he was abducted in Phnom Penh. A joint investigation reveals details of the Thai dissident&rsquo;s escape from Thailand, life in exile in Cambodia and the last days before he disappeared.</p>

<p>The Khon Kaen Provincial Court has accepted a lèse-majesté case &nbsp;filed against Tiwagorn Withiton, a Facebook user whose picture wearing a shirt printed with &ldquo;I lost faith in the monarchy&rdquo; went viral in 2020.</p>

<p>The mother of student activist Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul&nbsp;has received a police summons on a charge under the Emergency Decree, after she joined a protest demanding her daughter&rsquo;s release.</p>

<p>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.hrw.org/thailand">Thai</a>&nbsp;authorities should immediately investigate the killing of Somsak Onchuenjit, a lawyer and land rights activist, in Trang province in southern Thailand, Human Rights Watch said on Saturday (8 May).&nbsp;</p>

<p>Sureerat Chiwarak, mother of detained student activist Parit &ldquo;Penguin&rdquo; Chiwarak, shaved her head yesterday (30 April) to protest against the court&rsquo;s decision to repeatedly deny bail for her son, whose health is reported to be rapidly declining after being on a hunger strike for the past 46 days.</p>

<p>Four people currently facing royal defamation charges and detained pending trial have been granted bail: activists Jatupat Boonpattararaksa and Somyot Prueksakasemsuk, and two other people who were previously detained at prisons in Chiang Mai.</p>