<p>A participant in the Bike for Dad cycling rally to honour HM the King has filed a lèse majesté complaint against Nakhon Sawan provincial authorities for giving him a fake Bike for Dad shirt.</p> <p>According to<a href="http://www.thairath.co.th/content/546946">&nbsp;Thairath News</a>, Banjong Lueadthahan, a participant in the Bike for Dad cycling rally from Mueang District of Nakhon Sawan Province, on Wednesday evening filed a complaint under Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lèse majesté law, against the provincial administration of Nakhon Sawan Province.</p>

<p>A 27-year-old factory worker detained for posting infographics about Rajabhakti Park corruption scandal received additional lèse majesté and sedition charges for liking ‘inappropriate’ Facebook pictures.</p>

<p dir="ltr">The Thai police have started a lèse majesté probe into a speech criticising the kingdom’s lèse majesté law made by Glyn T. Davies, the US Ambassador to Thailand. &nbsp;</p> <p dir="ltr"> </p>

<p>The Thai junta’s law officers have filed a criminal defamation complaint against the lawyer of a Bike for Dad plot suspect while the lawyer alleged that the authorities intimidated her and pressured her client to change his attorney.</p>

<p dir="ltr">The veteran politician, closed-aid to ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra has lived in self-imposed exile for 6 years. In part 3 of the interview, Jakrapob Penkair talked about the conflicts among the Thai elites within the junta regime, the role of Pheu Thai Party, and his life outside the country.</p> <p></p>

<p>An ultra-royalist has urged the police to investigate the US Ambassador to Thailand over his criticism of the lèse majesté law, saying the police should proceed if the criticism breaches the law. &nbsp;</p>

<p>A suspect in a thwarted terrorist plot around the Bike for Dad event has denied police claims that he was involved in planning the plot from prison.</p>

<div><em>Note: Prachatai journalist Mutita Chuachang on Tuesday, 1 December 2015, was awarded the 2015 AFP Kate Webb prize for Asian journalists for her “powerful and persistent” reporting of cases under the lèse majesté law. Mutita, 33, received a certificate and 3,000 euros in a ceremony held at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand (FCCT). Mutita joined Prachatai when the news agency was founded almost 11 years ago. </em></div>

<p>A Thai publishing company has removed from the front page of the International New York Times an article about a dismal Thai economy under military rule. &nbsp;</p> <p>News kiosks in Thailand offered the 1 December 2015 issue of the International New York Times on their shelves with an article at the centre of its front page missing.</p> <p>Instead of a headline and text, an empty space contains the simple message “The article in this space was removed by our printer in Thailand. The International New York Times and its editorial staff had no role in its removal.”</p>

<p>The Criminal Court has sentenced an elderly leftist to six years in prison for distributing lèse majesté leaflets in 2007.</p> <p>The Criminal Court of Nonthaburi Province on Tuesday morning, 1 December 2015, sentenced Charnvit J., a 60-year-old self-proclaimed leftist, to six years’ imprisonment for an offence under Article 112 of the Criminal Act, the lèse majesté law.</p>

<p>The Thai police allege that suspects in a failed terrorist plot around the Bike for Dad event involve certain unnamed overseas anti-monarchy figures. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fd4a15c0-426a-d4c5-ff07-5b0819f5f938">The </span>Bangkok Post’s front page lead story from 24 November, 2015, <a href="http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/774077">highlighted a speech</a> given the previous day by General Prem Tinsulanonda, Thailand’s elder statesman, President of the Privy Council, and most influential non-royal Thai.</p>