<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>A Statement from Thai Lawyers for Human Rights forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)</strong></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) in collaboration with Cross Cultural Foundation (CrCF) and Amnesty International Thailand was planning to organize a presentation of report on the situation of human rights “Access to Justice in Thailand: Currently Unavailable Human Rights Situation 100 Days after the Coup” today. </div>

<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>THAILAND: Joint statement on the threats to the Wang Saphung community&nbsp;</strong></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>30 August 2014 Protection International and the Asian Human Rights Commission are seriously concerned about the Royal Thai Army’s latest intervention in the conflict between the Wang Saphung community in Loei Province with a neighbouring gold and copper mine. </div>

<p>The conflict over the mine in Loei is the first test of the junta’s policy to create reconciliation. The villagers say they have lost trust after the military intervened.</p> <p></p>

<p><a href="http://en.khaosod.co.th/detail.php?newsid=1408955527&amp;typecate=06&amp;section=">Khaosod English</a>: Thailand’s military junta has repealed an order that shut down fourteen satellite TV channels shortly after the army declared nationwide martial law in May.</p>

<div> <div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Thailand: Junta Leader Named Prime Minister</strong></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Repression Continues Three Months After Military Coup</strong></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: right;">AUGUST 22, 2014</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> </div> <div>(New York) – The appointment of Thailand’s junta leader as prime minister by the military-picked legislature does not advance human rights or a return to democratic rule, Human Rights Watch said today.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On August 21, 2014, the 191-member National Legislative Asse </div>

<div style="text-align: right;">AUGUST 20, 2014</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Thailand: Theater Activists Jailed for Insulting Monarchy</strong></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lese Majeste Arrests Increase Since Military Coup</strong></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>(New York) – The arrest of two activists involved in a play considered by Thai military authorities to be “insulting to the monarchy” shows the decline in freedom of expression in Thailand since the May 22, 2014 coup, Human Rights Watch said today. </div>

<div style="text-align: right;">19 August 2014</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><strong>Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights : Ravina Shamdasani</strong></div> <div><strong>Location: Geneva</strong></div> <div><strong>Subject: Thailand</strong></div> <div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</div> <div>We are seriously concerned about the prosecution and harsh sentencing of individuals in Thailand under the country's lèse majesté law. Such measures are adding to the larger pattern of increasing restrictions on freedom of expression in Thailand. </div>

<div>&nbsp;</div> <div> <div>Thai military on Friday 'asked for cooperation' from Thammasat University, Bangkok, to stop an academic seminar on the interim charter, held by student activists; however, the university and the event organizers defied the military.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>A letter, signed by Col Noppadon Tawrit, Commander of the Kings Guard’s 1st Field Artillery Regiment, to the university rector, states “the seminar may affect the attempts to solve national conflict”, so the university should stop the event in order “to prevent the resurgence of differences in political at </div></div>

<div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Thailand’s Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT) has blocked access to two Prachatai English news stories on the alleged torture of red-shirt activist Kritsuda Khunasen, without giving any explanation to the online news outlet. </div>

<div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The junta’s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) on Saturday reprimanded ASTV-Manager Weekly magazine for discrediting the junta.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>NCPO Order No. 108 stated that issue 253 of the magazine, published on July 23, contained “several issues” based on “false information with dishonest intention” and that the magazine intended to “destroy the credibility of the NCPO.”&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>This is a violation of NCPO Order No. </div></div>

<div>&nbsp;</div> <div>After the junta last Friday issued Order No. 97, prohibiting media from criticizing the junta and that any media outlet dare to criticize the junta would be shut down, on Monday night the junta’s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) withdrew its order.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The latest announcement, issued Monday night, amended the Order No. </div>

<div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Thai authorities have released the woman protester who held “Long Live USA Day” placard on 4 July at the US Embassy after detaining her for five days.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On the US Independence Day on 4 July, Chaowanat Musikabhumi, aka “Nong,”, 52, gathered with other protesters at the Embassy to show support for the US. During the gathering, she was detained twice by plain-clothes officers, but was then released. On 6 July, about ten military and police officers later arrested her at her house in eastern Bangkok. </div>