<p>HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver from June 1^st, 2015, includes a major segment on the use of images of Hitler in Thailand:</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wraq6VnXmGo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wraq6VnXmGo</a></p>

<p><a href="http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1434363136&amp;typecate=06&amp;section=">Khaosod English</a>: Thailand's Foreign Correspondents' Club has cancelled a discussion on the Kingdom’s draconian lese majeste law after police delivered a verbal order from the ruling military junta.</p>

<p>Thai police have searched the house of a former high ranking palace official accused under the lèse majesté law, confiscating 10 million baht’s worth of cash and property. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>According to the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tnamcot.com/content/208777">Thai News Agency</a>, Pol Lt Gen Prawut Thavornsiri, spokesman of the Royal Thai Police, and investigating officers on Sunday carried out a search of the house of Montri S., a former palace official serving Srirasmi, the former royal consort to the Crown Prince. Montri is accused of citing the monarchy for personal gain.</p>

<p dir="ltr">A high ranking palace officer accused of citing about the monarchy for personal gains.</p> <p>According to <a href="http://www.bangkokbiznews.com/news/detail/651081">Krungthepturakij News</a>, Pol Gen Somyos Pumpanmuang, the chief of the Royal Thai Police, on Wednesday morning held a press conference over an arrest warrant of Montri S., a high ranking officer of the Bureau of the Royal Household of Thailand, under Article 112 of the Criminal Code, aka. lese majeste law.</p>

<p>A military court in northern Thailand has held a deposition hearing in a lèse majesté case involving a mother of two in camera, citing public morals and stability.</p> <p>On Tuesday, the military court of the northern province of Chiang Mai held a deposition hearing in the case of Sasiwimol (surname withheld due to privacy concerns), a 29-year-old employee of a hotel in the province for allegedly posting six lèse majesté messages under the Facebook identity ‘Rungnapha Kampichai’.</p>

<p>“The road to hell is paved with good intentions” is a traditional English proverb.</p>

<p>A military court in northern Thailand on Monday held a witness examination hearing in a lèse majesté case involving a man with a record of mental illness.</p>

<div> <div>UN special rapporteurs have sent a letter to the Thai government, expressing grave concerns over the use of Article 112 or the lèse majesté law.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The letter, sent to the Thai government on 8 December 2014, named 21 suspects or defendants or convicts under the lèse majesté law and Article 14 of the Computer Crime Act.&nbsp;</div> </div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The 21 are:</div> <ol> <li>Khantawut B,&nbsp;</li> <li><a href="http://prachatai.org/english/node/4872">Tanat Thanawatcharanon, aka Tom Dundee,</a></li> <li><a href="http://prachatai.org/english/node/4696">Sira<br /> </a></li></ol>

<div>Paris, Geneva, 4 June 2015 <strong>-</strong>&nbsp;Thailand’s abuse of Article 112 of the Criminal Code (lèse-majesté) has considerably limited creative expression regarding the Thai monarchy and has led to the imprisonment of several artists and writers, FIDH said in a new report released today.<br /> </div>

<p>Thailand’s Foreign Affairs Ministry is attempting to convince other countries that those breaching the Thai lèse majesté law have committed a criminal offence not a political one. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>Don Pramudwinai, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, told the media on Wednesday that the Ministry is now trying to communicate with other countries where suspects under Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lèse majesté law, are residing, in order to extradite them back to Thailand.</p>

<div> <div>Jaran Ditapichai is a anti-establishment red-shirt leader, leftist and ex-communist who has fled Thailand to France after the coup on 22 May 2014. Prachatai interviewed Jaran about his exile life and how he will fight for Thai democracy from abroad. &nbsp;</div> </div>

<p dir="ltr">The Criminal Court will rule whether to accept a lese majeste case file against Thaksin Shinawatra, a controversial ex-Prime Minister, in September.</p> <p>According to <a href="http://www.matichon.co.th/news_detail.php?newsid=1432888750">Matichon Online</a>, Bangkok’s Ratchada Criminal Court will decide whether to accept the case file under Article 112 of the Criminal Code, aka. lese majeste law, against Thaksin Shinnawatra, an ex-PM who was ousted out of office by the 2006 coup d’état, on 7 September 2015.</p>