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<div>The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has spent 12.5 million baht (about 386,000 US dollars) on free screenings of the patriotic movie ‘Legend of King Naresuan 5’ as part of the “Resurgent Happiness” campaign of the junta.</div>
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<div>The free screenings for about 250,000 BMA employees and students of BMA schools, will be held during two weeks from 8 July.
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<div>A Thai court on Thursday morning sentenced an anti-coup protester to two months in jail and a fine of 6,000 baht, but since the defendant pleaded guilty, the jail term was suspended. </div>
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<div>Weerayuth Kongkanatan, 49, was arrested on 23 May 2014, a day after the coup, while he was protesting against the coup d’état at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC), near Siam Square. </div>
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<div>“On the night of 23 May, the defendant and 500 accomplices, who are still at large, held an assembly to oppose the coup.
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<div><a href="http://en.khaosod.co.th/detail.php?newsid=1404211157&section=00">Khaosod English</a> reported Tuesday: The ultra-nationalist Thai newspape ASTV Manager has published a "mock column" describing in graphic detail of how prisoners will gang-rape a fugitive anti-coup LGBT activist when she is finally arrested.</div>
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<div>Published under the newspaper’s parody section, known as"Phujadkuan," the mock article describes how the the military junta's National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) will arrest and send the transgender LGBT and pro-demo
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<div>One of the junta's main tools at present is not using guns and tanks, but relying on the power of language.</div>
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<div>The power seizure on May 22 was not a coup, but a "military intervention", or so the junta's spokesman Colonel Werachon Sukhondapatipak reminded us last month in a speech at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand (FCCT).
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<div>Over a month under the junta government, Thais have tried various ways to express their disapproval of the coup. On the first couple of days after the coup, the movement started as a traditional rally, which ended up with about a dozen people arrested. The military responded with even tighter security measures. More plain-clothes officers were deployed at any political-related events and spots where protesters usually gathered.
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<div>Sombat Boonngam-anong, a high profile anti-coup and red-shirt activist, has been released from custody after interrogation at a police station in the northeast province of Roi Et related to a lèse majesté charge. </div>
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<div>It has been confirmed to Prachatai that the military court granted bail to Sombat on Monday evening.
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By Thaweeporn Kummetha |
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<div>Under the junta, media and the Internet are censored. Eating sandwich and reading 1984 in public are forbidden. While expressing disapproval to the coup is very difficult, a media campaign was created to present another side of truth of live under the coup called "Resurgent Truth."</div>
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By Harrison George |
<p>The Thai government must know how Luis Suárez feels. Not in the sense of sympathy or feeling sorry for the millionaire delinquent, but on the lines of empathy, suffering in the same way.</p>
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<p>Thailand’s military junta, the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), announced on 25 June that it is creating panels to control media content and to prevent the media from being use to spread false information that could incite hatred and violence against the monarchy.</p>
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<p><a href="http://en.khaosod.co.th/detail.php?newsid=1404041869">Khaosod English</a> reported on Sunday: <span style="font-size: 12px;">While anti-coup protests are strictly forbidden under Thailand's military regime, anti-American protests are perfectly legal, says a senior police commander.</span></p>