<p>A supporter of anti-junta activists and the anti-establishment red shirts has pleaded guilty to accusations of lèse majesté in a military court.</p> <p>On 24 January 2017, Burin Intin, accused of offences under Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lèse majesté,<a href="http://www.tlhr2014.com/th/?p=3364">&nbsp;pleaded guilty</a>&nbsp;to all charges during his trial in Bangkok Military Court.</p> <p>The court will read the sentence on 27 January.</p>

<p>Thai authorities should immediately release a prominent pro-democracy activist charged for a Facebook posting under laws intended to protect Thailand’s monarchy, Human Rights Watch said today. Jatupat (Pai) Boonphatthararaksa faces up to 15 years in prison for lese majeste (insulting the monarchy) charges initiated by the military.</p>

<p>A provincial court in northeastern Thailand has denied bail for an anti-junta student activist accused of lèse majesté.</p> <p>At about 12:30 pm on 20 January 2016, the Khon Kaen Provincial Court of in an in-camera hearing granted police permission to continue the detention of Jatuphat ‘Pai’ Boonpattararaksa, a law student and key member of the New Democracy Movement (NDM).</p>

<p>In the presence of dozens of soldiers and police officers, people gathered yesterday evening in central Bangkok to show solidarity with an embattled anti-junta activist held in custody for lèse majesté.</p> <p>At 5 pm on 18 January 2017, about 50 people — many of them members of the anti-junta activist groups New Democracy Movement (NDM) and Resistant Citizen — gathered on the skywalk above Ratchaprasong Intersection in Bangkok.</p>

<p>The Thai police have intimidated the family <del cite="mailto:Alec%20Bamford" datetime="2017-01-21T18:49">of the wife </del>of a former Bangkok-based British journalist wanted for lèse majesté.</p>

<div>Despite Thailand’s famously appalling prison conditions, some ex-prisoners are preferring reimprisonment over the challenge of reintegrating into society.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The punitive slant of Thailand’s judicial system threatens offenders with heavy sanctions, but offers few rehabilitation mechanisms to address the difficulties inmates face upon returning to life outside the prison gates. </div>

<p>Leading anti-junta activist groups have planned to gather at Ratchaprasong Intersection in central Bangkok from 5-6 pm on 18 January 2017 to support Jatuphat ‘Pai’ Boonpattararaksa.</p> <p>The organisers of the ‘Anything for Pai’ event are the New Democracy Movement (NDM) of which Jatuphat is a member and Resistant Citizen, another well-known anti-junta group. &nbsp;</p> <p>The group will gather on the skywalk at the intersection to write postcards and perform other activities.</p>

<p><section> <p>The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of FIDH and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in&nbsp;Thailand.</p> <p><strong>Description of the situation:</strong></p> </section></p>

<p>Despite hopes an embattled student activist would be able to sit his exams behind bars, a Dean of Khon Kaen University has confirmed the university will not make an exception for Jatuphat ‘Pai Dao Din’ Boonpattararaksa.</p> <p>On 17 January 2017, Asst. Prof. Kittibodee Yaipool, Dean of Khon Kaen University’s Law Faculty,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tlhr2014.com/th/?p=3283">announced</a>&nbsp;that currently the university has no plans to facilitate examinations in Khon Kaen Prison for Jatuphat a.</p>

<p>Military and civilian courts have released more suspects under the lèse majesté law on bail in 2016. However, the number is still less than half. &nbsp;</p> <p>Since the coup d’état on 22 May 2014, out of 46 suspects under Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lèse majesté law, who submitted bail requests, 18 were granted bail by civilian and military courts, according to<a href="https://freedom.ilaw.or.th/StatsonBail112">&nbsp;iLaw</a>, a human rights advocacy group.</p>

<p>Scholars at Risk (SAR) is concerned over the arrest and continued imprisonment of Jatupat "Pai" Boonpattararaksa, a Khon Kaen University law student and activist, based on nonviolent expressive activity.</p>