<div> <div>The police have summoned Anon Numpa, a human rights lawyer and pro-democracy activist, because of a Facebook post criticising a verdict.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> </div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><img alt="" src="https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7326/27256290186_ea102bdeb5.jpg" /></div> <div><strong><span>Anon Nampa (file photo)</span></strong></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div> <div>According to <a href="http://www.tlhr2014.com/th/?p=5823">Thai Lawyers for Human Rights</a>, </div></div>

<div>Human rights lawyers have filed a charge against Thailand’s Corrections Department after prison officers barred a lawyer from meeting his lèse majesté client.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><img alt="" src="https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5568/15214891692_e68b09995d_o.png" /></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div> <div>On 16 January 2016, Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) filed a charge against the Corrections Department, the Director of Chiang Rai Central Prison and a prison staff member. </div></div>

<p dir="ltr">A military court has accused a lèse majesté suspect of disrespecting the court for arguing that the courts have a role in defending democracy and resisting Thailand’s coup-makers. &nbsp;</p>

<p>Activists charged over Rajabhakti Park trip refuse to be tried by Military Court</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Embattled anti-junta activists charged with defying the Thai junta’s ban on political gatherings by organizing a field trip to Rajabhakti Park, the military’s royal theme park plagued with corruption allegations, have refused to be tried by a Military Court.</p>

<p dir="ltr">Key members of Resistant Citizen, a well-known anti-junta activists group, and other leading pro-democracy activists might be charged with Computer Crime Act over performing in a music video on the draft constitution referendum.</p>

<div> <div>The public prosecutor decided to file charges against human rights lawyer for hosting ‘standing still’ activities demanding for the release of junta critics.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On Tuesday, 27 May 2016, Thailand Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) <a href="https://tlhr2014.wordpress.com/2016/05/27/anon_case/">reported</a> that the public prosecutor had filed charges under Public Assembly Act against Anon Nampa, a human right lawyer and a key member of Resistant Citizen, an anti-junta activist group, for hosting standing still activities to show support for and solidarity wit </div></div>

<p>A core member of Resistant Citizen, an anti-junta activist group, Pansak Srithep, and other activists commemorated the death of Pansak’s son who was killed during the military crackdown on red shirt protesters in May 2010.</p>

<p>The Thai military have reportedly abducted a cameraman and another individual in the central province of Samut Prakan after attempting to break into the house of a Pheu Thai Party politician earlier this morning.</p>

<p>Police have charged activists for violating the public cleanliness act by posting messages on post-its for&nbsp;<a href="http://www.prachatai.org/english/category/the-eight-abducted-junta-critics">the eight abducted junta critics&nbsp;</a>while a few were interrogated for participating in the same activity.</p>

<p>Thai police have detained 16 activists for standing still to show solidarity with&nbsp;<a href="http://prachatai.org/english/node/6087">10 persons abducted earlier by the military</a>. One of the 16 was later taken away by the military after the arrest.</p> <p>Police officers at about 6:30 pm on Wednesday, 27 April 2016, arrested 16 people for gathering at the Victory Monument in Bangkok and standing still to show solidarity with 10 people abducted by the military on Wednesday morning.</p>

<p dir="ltr">The Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) lectured the European Union (EU) Ambassador to Thailand on the country’s political history to justify the detention of a Pheu Thai Party politician.</p> <p>Don Pramudwinai, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, told media that the MFA on Tuesday afternoon, 19 April 2016, met Jesús Miguel Sanz, the Ambassador of the European Union (EU) to Thailand, to discuss about the current political situation of Thailand, <a href="http://www.thairath.co.th/content/608002">Thairath News reported</a>.</p>

<p dir="ltr">Police released anti-junta activists without charges after detaining them for gathering in support for a detained Pheu Thai Party politician.</p> <p>At 8:30 pm on Tuesday, 19 April 2016, police officers of Phayathai Police Station released Anon Nampa of Resistant Citizen Group, Sirawit Serithiwat from New Democracy Movement (NDM), Aramis Akahad and Wannakit Chatsuwan, four well known anti-junta activists.</p>