By Yiamyut Sutthichaya |
<div>
<div><em>An activist with the Assembly of the Poor on the issue of the Pak Mun Dam, Kritsakorn Silarak has been summoned to military bases 18 times. Kritsakorn spoke of the experience of his mother and coworker throwing their telephones in frustration with military pressure. </em></div>
</div>
<p>The military has threatened to detain an outspoken academic in a military barracks if he does not stop posting about corruption and dictatorship.</p>
<p>On 13 June 2017, Surapot Thaweesak, a well-known scholar of religion, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/suraphotthaweesak/posts/1404838352942833">posted on his Facebook account </a>that military officers in Bangkok had warned him over political posts.</p>
<div>
<div>Two men have been sent for military ‘attitude adjustment’ after filing a complaint urging police to search for the missing plaque commemorating the 1932 Democratic Revolution.
</div></div>
<div>
<div>For the first time, the junta has arranged a so-called attitude adjustment session outside a military barrack.
</div></div>
<p>In addition to lifting a travel ban imposed on political dissidents, the deputy junta head said that the so-called attitude adjustment sessions will no longer be held in military barracks to make things less intimidating.</p>
<p>On Tuesday, 31 May 2016, the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) Head’s Order No. 25/2016 was announced in the Royal Gazette. The order cancels NCPO Announcement No. 21/2014, thereby lifting the travel ban imposed on individuals listed in the announcement, most of whom are political dissidents and politicians from the Pheu Thai Party.</p>
<p>The Thai military and police have attempted to break into the house of a Pheu Thai Party politician to detain him after he criticized the junta leader.</p>
<p>According to <a href="http://news.voicetv.co.th/thailand/363591.html">Voice TV,</a> a news source from the Pheu Thai Party reported that soldiers and police officers in the early hours of Thursday, 12 May 2016, surrounded the house of Worachai Hema, a former Member of Parliament (MP) of the Pheu Thai Party from Samut Prakan Province, and attempted to break into the house.</p>
<p>A politician from the Pheu Thai Party recently released from military custody has told the media that his daughter has been pressured to leave the country. </p>
<p>The Military Court has released embattled Pheu Thai Party politician Watana Muangsook.</p>
<p>The Military Court of Bangkok at around 5:40 pm on Thursday, 21 April 2016, released on 80,000 baht bail Watana Muangsook, 59, a politician from the Pheu Thai Party who was detained by the military for so-called attitude adjustment, a period of detention with lectures forced upon political dissidents by the junta.</p>
<p>He will be released after being transferred to Bangkok Remand Prison on Thursday evening.</p>
<p>Anti-junta activists have again been detained by the police for gathering to show support for an embattled Pheu Thai Party politician currently detained in a military camp.</p>
<p>Police officers arrested Anon Nampa and Pansak Srithep of the Resistant Citizen Group, Sirawit Serithiwat from the New Democracy Movement (NDM), Aramis Akahad and Wannakit Chatsuwan, five well-known anti-junta activists at around 6:45 pm on Wednesday, 20 April 2016.</p>
<p>The deputy head of the ruling junta has told the media that a gathering in support of a detained Pheu Thai Party politician cannot be held, adding that the regime does not care about criticism from human rights groups and other nations. </p>
<p>The Thai junta has told a Pheu Thai politician known for his criticisms against the regime that he will be taken to a military camp once again for re-education.</p>