<p>An embattled former Education Minister from the Pheu Thai Party has denied sedition charges, vowing to continue to fight the charges against him through civil disobedience.</p>

<p>Thailand’s Office of the Ombudsman has concluded that the Referendum Act might be unconstitutional as its ambiguity allows the authorities to clamp down on the draft charter critics.</p> <p>Raksagecha Chaechai, Secretary-General of the Office of the Ombudsman, on Wednesday, 1 June 2016, announced that the Ombudsman’s Office will submit a request to the Constitutional Court to rule whether the 2016 Referendum Act is unconstitutional or not. &nbsp; &nbsp;</p>

<p>Soldiers stormed into a red-shirt TV station and warned a Pheu Thai Party spokesperson to be careful in criticising the junta.</p> <p>About 10 soldiers at around 3 pm on Tuesday, 31 May 2016, stormed into the broadcasting station in Bangkok of TV 24, a TV station affiliated with United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), the main red shirt faction associated with Thaksin Shinawatra, the former controversial Prime Minister,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.khaosod.co.th/view_newsonline.php?newsid=1464688234">Khaosod News reported</a>.</p>

<p>After being imprisoned for almost two years, a well-known anti-establishment red-shirt country singer recanted earlier statements and pleaded guilty to a lèse majesté charge.</p> <p>At the Criminal Court on Ratchadaphisek Rd., Bangkok, on Monday morning, Thanat Thanawatcharanon, 58, aka Tom Dundee, a country singer-turned-red-shirt activist, pleaded guilty to an offence under Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lèse majesté law.</p> <p>Thanat was indicted on two lèse majesté charges.</p>

<p>A public university has notified its lecturers not to criticise the junta-sponsored draft constitution, saying public institutions have to support the government.</p> <p>Arjinjonathan Arjinkit, lecturer of the Faculties of Humanities and Social Science of Rajabhat Rajanagarindra University in the central province of Chachoengsao posted a status on his Facebook account on 25 May titled ‘When the university monitors your Facebook’.</p>

<p dir="ltr">International rights organisations have expressed concerns that the amendment of the Computer Crime Act might violate the rights to freedom of expression and to privacy.</p> <p dir="ltr">On Thursday, 26 May 2016, Amnesty International, the Thai Netizen Network (TNN) and Privacy International handed a joint statement to Pol Gen Chatchawan Suksomjit, Chair of the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) committee vetting the amended version of the Computer Crime Act.</p>

<p>The Thai junta leader has said that anyone blaming the government for the economic slump will be sued while his Deputy said that the people will not be happy without the junta premier. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<div>Harit Mahaton, a man accused of sedition and lèse majesté -- very serious crimes that could land him in prison for decades -- has a distinct character. He has great interest in literature because, to him, it is a form of freedom.&nbsp;</div> <p></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&nbsp;<a href="http://news.voicetv.co.th/thailand/363591.html">Voice TV,</a>&nbsp;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 dir="ltr">The Military Court has detained two of <a href="http://www.prachatai.org/english/category/the-eight-abducted-junta-critics">the eight junta critics </a>and another political dissident charged under the lѐse majesté law.</p> <p>The Military Court of Bangkok at 3:30 pm on Wednesday, 11 May 2016, granted custody permission to the police to detain Harit Mahaton and Natthika Worathaiwich, suspects of offences under Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lѐse majesté law. &nbsp;</p>

<p>The Military Court has detained two of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.prachatai.org/english/category/the-eight-abducted-junta-critics">the eight junta critics&nbsp;</a>and another political dissident after they were charged under the lѐse majesté law.</p> <p>The Military Court of Bangkok at 3:30 pm on Wednesday, 11 May 2016, granted a police request to detain Harit Mahaton and Natthika Worathaiwich, suspects under Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lѐse majesté law. &nbsp;</p>

<p>Thailand’s military junta should drop sedition and other criminal charges against eight people for mocking the prime minister on Facebook, Human Rights Watch said today. The Facebook page shows memes and doctored photos, with satirical quotes, of Prime Minister Gen. Prayut Chan-ocha, who chairs the ruling National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) junta.<br /><br />The charges against the Facebook users are part of the junta’s systematic repression of peaceful dissent and criticism since the military coup in May 2014, Human Rights Watch said.<br /></p>