<p>The Military Court has issued arrest warrants for nine political dissidents, most of whom were abducted by the authorities for criticising the junta.</p> <p><a href="http://www.matichon.co.th/news/120269">Matichon Online</a>&nbsp;reported that the Military Court of Bangkok on Thursday, 28 April 2016, issued arrest warrants for nine persons, eight of whom were abducted by the military yesterday.</p>

<p>The Thai military has abducted 10 people in Bangkok and the northeastern province of Khon Kaen in the junta’s latest crackdown on political dissidents. &nbsp; &nbsp;</p> <p>According to&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/KAO_VoiceTV21/status/725215022029279232">a reporter from Voice TV</a>, Col Winthai Suwaree, spokesperson of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), said that the military on Wednesday morning, 27 April 2016, detained 10 people in total.</p>

<p>Not even a month after news of&nbsp;<a href="http://prachatai.org/english/node/6011">an army draftee beaten to death by other soldiers&nbsp;</a>caused public outrage, a doctor has concluded that another soldier in northeastern Thailand has been beaten to death in a military camp.</p>

<p>Soldiers in the northeastern (Isan) province of Udon Thani are intimidating anti-mine activists ahead of a planned forum on the environmental effects of a potash mine. &nbsp;</p>

<p>The military has summoned the leader of an embattled indigenous seafarer community in the southern province of Phuket for a discussion, accusing him of violating a junta order.</p>

<p>The army officer commanding the 6 soldiers who beat to death an army recruit in the Deep South was promoted to his post despite the fact that he was involved in the fatal torture of a Deep South insurgent suspect in 2012. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p>Six soldiers are to be jailed for beating to death a military recruit in the Deep South of Thailand.</p>

<p>A soldier in Thailand’s Deep South has died a few days after he was reportedly tortured at a military base for committing disciplinary offences. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="http://mgr.manager.co.th/South/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=9590000034453">The Manager Online reported</a>&nbsp;on Monday, 4 April 2016, that 23-year-old Private Songtham Mutmat from Phayak Military Camp in Bannang Sata District of the restive Deep Southern Province of Yala, died at the provincial hospital. &nbsp;</p>

<p>The Thai military has prohibited a seminar on the controversial draft constitution in the northern province of Chiang Mai as the public referendum on the draft is drawing near. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="http://www.matichon.co.th/news/92664">Matichon Online reported</a>&nbsp;on Saturday, 2 April 2016, that Sunai Phasuk, a coordinator of Human Rights Watch (HRW), tweeted on his Twitter account that military officers from Kawila Military Camp in Chiang Mai ordered the cancellation of a seminar on ‘Reading the Constitution as Literature and Art’.</p>

<p>Military and police officers have searched the offices of Pheu Thai party politicians in northern Thailand and confiscated red bowls inscribed with Thai new year greetings from former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.</p> <p><a href="http://www.matichon.co.th/news/92875">Matichon Online</a>&nbsp;reported that at 10:30 am on Saturday, 2 April 2016, soldiers from the 15th Cavalry Squadron in the northern province of Nan and police officers searched three offices of former Members of Parliament from the Pheu Thai party in Mueang, Pua, and Wiang Sa districts of the province.</p>

<p>Thai military summoned a villager in the northern province of Chiang Mai for posting a picture of a red bowl with the signature of the controversial former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on it and accused her of sedition.</p>

<p>Chiang Mai Provincial Court has dismissed charges against a Lahu ethnic minority activist accused of posting a video clip defaming the Thai military.</p> <p>According to&nbsp;<a href="https://tlhr2014.wordpress.com/2016/03/08/maitree_verdict/">Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR)</a>, the Provincial Court of Chiang Mai on Tuesday, 8 March 2016, dismissed charges against Maitree Chamroensuksakul, a Lahu activist and citizen journalist, indicted for offences under Article 14 of the 2007 Computer Crime Code (importation of illegal internet content).</p>