<h2>1. The more active citizens</h2> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Given the public curiosity that there could be corruption in the construction of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajabhakti_Park">Rajabhakti Park</a>, and if so, who among the government officials, the military junta or members of the coup makers have been involved, it has led to at least three intriguing activities initiated by media and citizens keen on corruption issues including;</p>

<p>The criminal court has rejected a request from an anti-junta activist to free a fellow activist held at an unknown location while the National Human Rights Commission has pressed the authorities to disclose where he is being detained.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>The Criminal Court on Ratchadaphisek Road, Bangkok, on Thursday at about 4 pm, 17 December 2015, for the second time rejected a plea to free Thanet A., a 25-year-old activist who was reportedly taken from his sickbed while waiting for a medical operation last week.</p>

<p>The Military Court has sentenced a 49-year-old accountant to 19 years in prison under the lèse majesté and sedition laws during a deposition hearing without informing her lawyer.</p>

<p>The Deputy Police Chief has confirmed that clicking ‘like’ on lèse majesté and seditious Facebook content is a criminal offence while a computer crime expert refuted the police claim. &nbsp;</p>

<p dir="ltr"><strong>Update</strong>: Thanakorn’s attorney from Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) submitted a 300,000 baht (about 8,300 USD) bail request to the military court. However, the court denied bail, citing the severity of the case as it is related to the Thai monarchy and flight risk.</p>

<p>Thai anti-junta activists indicted under the junta’s political gathering ban have refused the jurisdiction of military courts in their cases, reasoning that they should be tried by the courts of justice.</p>

<p>The authorities have arrested and pressed sedition charges against a 77-year-old teacher for giving flowers to support an anti-junta activist.</p> <p>According to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1647407905533707&amp;id=1422797047994795">Free Thai Legal Aid (FTLA)</a>, their lawyers on Monday 10 am, 26 October 2015, submitted a bail request for Preecha Kaewbanpaew, a 77-year-old retired teacher, to the Military Court of Bangkok.</p>

<p dir="ltr">An ultra-royalist organisation and a pro-coup monk have organised rallies in front of the US embassy in Bangkok, calling the US and human rights groups not to criticise the lese majeste law and to send back people allegedly defaming the Thai monarchy believed to be in the US. &nbsp;</p>

<p>A pro-coup Buddhist monk known for leading anti-election mobs prior to the 2014 coup d’état has urged the US and Human Rights Watch, a human rights civil society group, not to touch Thailand’s lèse majesté law or intervene in its domestic affairs. &nbsp;</p>

<p>The military and criminal courts have disagreed about the jurisdiction over the case of a well-known embattled anti-junta politician charged with sedition and defying the junta’s order.</p>

<p>The Thai authorities have revoked the passport of Chaturon Chaisang, a well-known Pheu Thai Party politician known for his criticisms of the Thai junta and the draft constitution.</p>

<p>Thai military prosecutors have charged an anti-establishment red shirt single mother with sedition and computer crime offences for posting false rumours about the junta leader. &nbsp;</p>