<p>Thailand’s Ministry of Culture has banned a horror film centring on the life of a teenage monk after the movie caused a stir among Buddhist hardliners who alleged that the film insults Buddhism.</p> <p>On Monday, 12 October 2015, Sahamongkol Film International, a Thai film production company,&nbsp;sent out a <a href="https://twitter.com/Sahamongkolfilm/status/653521351135723520">tweet </a>to inform the public that it has to postpone screening the film ‘Abat’ (‘offense’ in the Pali language, the sacred language of Theravada Buddhism).</p>

<p>Four embattled anti-coup activists charged with violating the junta’s ban on political gatherings have refused to testify before a military court, saying the court does not have jurisdiction over their case.</p>

<p>Military officers summoned university students in northern Thailand for a discussion after they commemorated the 1976 student massacre, saying that the event was political incitement.</p> <p>According to&nbsp;<a href="https://tlhr2014.wordpress.com/2015/10/07/chiangrai_ratchabhat/">Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR)</a>, military officers from the 37th Army Division in the northern province of Chiang Rai on Tuesday, 6 October 2015, contacted Chiang Rai Rajabhat University, requesting to have words with all the students who commemorated the 1976 student massacre.</p>

<div>A renowned cartoonist of Thairath, a daily newspaper with biggest circulation in Thailand, was summoned by the military for his cartoons criticizing junta, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/VoiceTVonline/posts/10154430903474848">Voice TV </a>reported on Sunday morning.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The report said Sakda Sae-eaw, known by his penname as “Sia,” a cartoonist whose column is on Thairath page 3, reported in at the Royal Thai Army Headquarter on Sunday morning. &nbsp;&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div>

<div> <p>An initiative in Thailand to create a single government-controlled gateway for international Internet traffic represents a clear danger to online freedoms, the Committee to Protect Journalists said in a statement today. CPJ calls on Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha to drop the proposed plan and stop harassing journalists and social media users.</p> </div>

<div>Lawyers from five countries in Southeast Asia have met in an historic conference in Cebu, Philippines to form a common front against the repression of freedom of expression in the region.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>One of their key proposals is to engage together and hold accountable regional institutions like the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights – an organization, they say, remains unresponsive to human rights violations in member countries.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>More than 30 lawyers, representing 10 civil society organizations from Thailand, Malaysia, Myanmar, Ind </div>

<p>The 16 September resignation of Pravit Rojanaphruk, senior reporter of&nbsp;The Nation&nbsp;and acerbic critic of the coup government of Thai premier Gen Prayut Chan-ocha due to mounting pressure within the newspaper, particularly from his own colleagues, has put a spotlight on deep seated issues among the Thailand media.</p>

<p>This column is not an attempt to draw parallels between General Prayut Chan-ocha and Adolf Hitler nor to compare Thailand at present with Germany post-1933; it is an attempt to understand the similarities in how the present Thai and the historical German dictatorial models began.</p>

<p dir="ltr">Conservative Buddhist organisations in Thailand calls on the authorities to review a horror movie about a young novice, saying that the film insults Buddhism and Buddhist monks.</p>

<p dir="ltr">The Thai junta ordered removal of an aerial of a local anti-establishment red shirt radio station in Isan, Thailand's Northeast.</p>

<p dir="ltr">The Thai junta has released an anti-junta journalist and Pheu Thai politicians detained incommunicado.</p> <p>At 4 pm on Tuesday, 15 September 2015, the junta’s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) released Pravit Rojanaphruk, 48, an anti-junta journalist of the the Nation news agency, from the 1st Army Region Base in Bangkok after he was detained incommunicado for two days. &nbsp;</p>

<p>Thai police officers detained an elderly writer after he made comments about the new constitutional draft, which they said might affect national security. &nbsp;</p> <p>Police officers on Saturday afternoon, 12 September 2015, detained a 70-year-old independent writer known by his penname Bundit Aneeya, after he made suggestions at a seminar on the new constitution drafting process at Thammasat University, Tha Prachan Campus, Bangkok.</p>