By Prachatai |
<p>Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) report that a 24-year-old man in Krabi Province was visited by the police who tried to make him sign a document promising not to express any opinion about the monarchy as he had during a past protest.</p>
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<div>A leader of the recent protest against a coal-fired power plant has urged a high-ranking general to stage a coup against the ruling junta if it does not keep its promise to postpone the power plant project. </div>
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<div>On 20 February 2017, ML Rungkun Kitiyakara, one of the leaders of the <a href="http://www.prachatai.com/english/node/6935">recent protest</a> at Government House, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1840318166225491&set=a.1409401019317210.1073741839.100007419761220&type=3&theater">posted on his Facebook page</a> a message u
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<div>The military has released villagers detained for protesting against the junta’s plans for a coal-fired power plant in Krabi Province.
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<div>Two Italian tourists were arrested after a CCTV filmed them throwing four Thai national flags on the ground. The suspects begged for forgiveness, saying they were extremely drunk. </div>
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<div>On 9 January 2017, police officers arrested Topias Gumper, 20, and Ian Gasgrazer, 18, in a guesthouse in Krabi Province. The two were accused of showing disrespect to national flags and private property, reported Thairath.
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<p>Villagers in southern Thailand have protested against the military’s proposal to turn parts of a wetland into a battle practice ground. </p>
<p>According to <a href="http://www.thairath.co.th/content/527064">Thairath News</a>, about 100 villagers in Khlong Thom Tai Subdistrict, Khlong Thom District, of the southern province of Krabi at 11 am on Thursday, 24 September 2015, gathered at a wetland in the district, which they have been using as pasture and farmland, to protest the military’s plan to turn the area into a combat practice area.</p>
<p>Energy experts, state officials and entrepreneurs in southern Thailand have called on the Thai authorities to scrap a plan to build a coal-fired power plant in the region, saying that the lucrative tourism industry could suffer in the long run.</p>
<p>A leader of southern landless communities was shot dead after leading a campaign against a private oil palm plantation allegedly using land given to the communities.</p>
<p>Somsuk Kohklang, a 50-year-old land rights village activist from the southern province of Krabi was shot dead on Wednesday afternoon while driving a motorcycle with his wife in an oil palm plantation in Muang District of Krabi.</p>