A 34-year-old Chiang Mai resident was arrested on 16 July on royal defamation and sedition charges resulting from a post in the Royalist Marketplace Facebook group.

During a hearing at the South Bangkok Criminal Court yesterday (16 July), a representative from the Immigration Bureau said that the Thai authorities prevented Hong Kong activist and UN-recognised refugee Zhang Xinyan from traveling to Canada after the Chinese Embassy in Bangkok asked that Thailand delay her resettlement.

The Court of Appeal Region 5 has sentenced a human rights lawyer to two years in prison for royal defamation over his protest speech delivered during a 2020 protest at Chiang Mai University.

The Thanyaburi Provincial Court inquest into the death in custody of a pro-democracy activist has found that she died from a mineral imbalance compounded by an enlarged heart. The ruling did not resolve whether negligence by officials and medical staff contributed to her death.

Lawyers representing Zhang Xinyan, a Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and UN-recognised refugee, has not been able to reach her since she was detained by the Thai authorities on 8 July.

Atirut (last name withheld), a 29-year-old programmer convicted at royal defamation for shouting at a royal motorcade, will serve his 1 year and 8 months prison sentence after withdrawing his appeal with the Supreme Court.

A lawyer representing activist Wisarut Srichan said that Wisarut and his legal team plan to file a lawsuit against the police for their violence against protesters who went to the Chinese Consulate-General in Chiang Mai on 6 July to demand action on contamination in several rivers in the north of Thailand due to Chinese mines in Myanmar.

The House of Representatives and the Senate have approved an amnesty bill aimed at exonerating those who committed political offences during the past 20 years. The bill excludes royal defamation cases, including those involving minors.

A protest took place in front of the Chinese Embassy in Bangkok today (8 July) to demand that China tackle contamination in the Mekong River and its tributaries due to Chinese mines upstream in Myanmar. They also condemned the police violence against participants in the protest in front of the Chinese Consulate-General in Chiang Mai on Monday (6 July).

A citizen and a lecturer from Mahidol University have been indicted for criminal defamation over a Facebook post and comment questioning alleged vote-buying involving a Pheu Thai MP candidate.

Two protesters were injured on Monday (6 July) during a protest near the Chinese Consulate in Chiang Mai after police officers blocked them from approaching the Consulate to file a petition calling on China to control Chinese mines in Myanmar that has led to contamination in the Kok River.

The South Bangkok Criminal Court today (6 July) dismissed royal defamation and sedition charges filed against 7 activists for conducting a poll on royal motorcades in February 2022.