<p dir="ltr">The police have arrested the host of a TV programme exposing irregularities in food supplies to a prison.</p> <p dir="ltr">On 9 May 2017, according<a href="http://www.manager.co.th/Crime/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=9600000047138"> the Manager Online </a>police officers arrested Yutthiyong Limlertwathee, the 51-year-old host of the TV programme ‘Sapha Kafae, Sapha Prachachon’ on ASTV News 1 Channel, at a coffee shop in Wang Thonglang District of Bangkok.</p>

<p dir="ltr">The Criminal Court has refused to release a lecturer arrested for sharing a Facebook post written by an academic blacklisted by the junta, despite the defendant promising almost one million baht as surety for bail.</p> <p>On 9 May 2017, the Criminal Court on Ratchadaphisek Rd., Bangkok,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tlhr2014.com/th/?p=4221">denied a bail request&nbsp;</a>with a 927,000 baht surety for a university lecturer who requested anonymity accused of violating Article 112 of the Criminal Code, lèse majesté law.</p>

<div>Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns a Thai government ban, imposed yesterday, on any online contact or interaction with three prominent critics of the regime – a foreign journalist and two academics – and urges all Facebook users beyond the government’s reach to share content from the Facebook accounts of these three critics. The ban’s three targets are Andrew MacGregor Marshall, a well-known Scottish journalist who used to be based in Bangkok, and Thai academics Somsak Jeamteerasakul and Pavin Chachavalpongpun. </div>

<p>The police have accused a villager in Sakon Nakhon of breaching the Public Assembly Act for participating in an anti-potash mining event. &nbsp;</p> <p>On 27 March 2017, Satanon Chuenta, a member of the Wanon Niwat Environmental Conservation Group,<a href="http://www.tlhr2014.com/th/?p=3831">&nbsp;reported to Wanon Niwat District Police Station</a>&nbsp;in the northeastern province of Sakon Nakhon.</p>

<p>A criminal court has issued an arrest warrant for an anti-corruption activist who posted the results of a political survey on Facebook.</p> <p>On 12 March 2017, Veera Somkwamkid, Secretary-General of the People’s Anti-Corruption Network, posted on his&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1243026455795204&amp;id=181257625305431">Facebook account</a>&nbsp;that the Criminal Court on Ratchadapisek Road in Bangkok has approved an arrest warrant for him.</p>