<p>As a hyper-royalist doctor has said that he wanted to visit Perth, Australia, from time to time as a part of his retirement plan, a&nbsp;Thai political academic in exile, launched an online campaign on Change.org, calling for the Australian government to deny him entry in response to his witch-hunts against free speech activists.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The Civil Court has agreed to summon police representatives to testify on the crackdown on the <a href="https://prachatai.com/english/node/10104">18 November anti-government protest</a>, which left at least 4 reporters injured.</p>

<p>The activist group Thalufah staged a protest in front of the police headquarters yesterday (24 November) to demand that the police take responsibility for the violent crackdown on the 18 November anti-government protest march, which left many protesters injured and cost one activist his eye.</p>

<p>A 19-year-old activist was sentenced on Tuesday (22 November) to 2 years in prison after the Central Juvenile and Family Court ruled that the royal defamation law covers not only specific monarchs but also the monarchy as a whole.</p>

<p>Three activists detained pending trial on charges relating to the burning of a royal ceremonial arch in front of Ratchawinit School have been granted bail after months in prison.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Activists and protesters have filed a complaint against crowd control police for the <a href="https://prachatai.com/english/node/10104">violent dispersal of the 18 November anti-government protest march</a> which left many injured and led to the arrest of 25 people.&nbsp;</p>

<p>An online news agency is filing a fresh court challenge aimed at reining in the police&rsquo;s documented aggression against members of the press. &nbsp;The 18 November crackdown on anti-government demonstrators saw a reporter on the ground being beaten and a bottle hurled at a photographer&rsquo;s face from the direction of the police.</p>

<p>On Friday (18 November), several reporters were injured and a citizen journalist was assaulted and arrested during&nbsp;a violent dispersal of a protest march&nbsp;that was heading towards the APEC meeting at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre (QSNCC).</p>

<p>Among the 33 people injured during the clashes between crowd control police and protesters marching to the Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre on Friday (18 November), one was shot in the eye with a rubber bullet and is now very likely to go blind.&nbsp;</p>

<p>25 people were arrested on Friday (18 November) after crowd control police forcibly dispersed protesters marching to the Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre (QSNCC), the venue of the APEC Economic Leaders&rsquo; Meeting, to protest the government under Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha and its pro-corporation economic models.</p>

<p>Ahead of the APEC Economic Leaders&rsquo; Week, which is currently taking place at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre in Bangkok, Thai activists staged protests against the One China policy and the summit itself.</p>

<p>The Expressway Authority of Thailand (EXAT) warned netizens to remove meme posts of its misspelt <span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family:&quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;,serif">&ldquo;</span>Welcom&rdquo; to APEC 2022 highway sign, threatening to sue those who failed to do so within 24 hours<span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,serif"><span style="color:black"><span class="Hyperlink0" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,serif">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>