<p>2 people arrested during a candle vigil for a dead protester at Din Daeng Police Station revealed that their 9 hours in police custody involved beatings and death threats.</p>

<p>To mark the 9th International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists (IDEA) on 2 November, media workers from around Southeast Asia gathered together with international stakeholders to consider the how best to overcome prevailing constraints on regional media - legal, political and cultural.</p>

<p>On Monday, 1 November, student activist Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul and representatives from <a href="https://www.amnesty.or.th/en/latest/news/965/">Amnesty International Thailand</a> submitted a petition to the prime minister to demand the release of detained activists and an end to the prosecution of protesters.</p>

<p>On Saturday (31 October), activists held a memorial for Nuamthong Praiwan, a taxi driver who intentionally crashed his vehicle into a tank and later committed suicide to protest the 2006 military coup.&nbsp; The event was held at the overpass where he hung himself.</p>

<p>Friends and family of activist in exile Siam Theerawut, who went missing 2 years ago, met at his family home in Samut Sakhon on Saturday (31 October) for a gathering on his 36th birthday, while his fate remains unknown.</p>

<p>On 31 October, a protest was held by the Ratsadon group at Bangkok&rsquo;s Ratchaprasong Intersection to demand that the royal defamation law be abolished and those held for violating it be freed.</p>

<p>Student activists Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul and Seksit Yaemsanguansak filed a lawsuit with the Civil Court on Friday, 29 October, against the Prime Minister and the military commander-in-chief to repeal emergency decree order 15 on the grounds that the ban on public gatherings unlawfully limits people&rsquo;s rights and freedoms.</p>

<p>The public prosecutor has decided to indict Noppasin Treelayapewat, 16, who was charged with royal defamation for participating in a &ldquo;fashion show&rdquo; during a pro-democracy protest on Silom Road on 29 October 2020.</p>

<p>Warit Somnoi, 15, who was shot following a Din Daeng intersection protest on the night of 16 August 2021, has died after spending 2 months in a coma at Rajavithi Hospital&rsquo;s intensive care unit.</p>

<p>Activists and people affected by the royal defamation law, or Section 112 of the Thai Criminal Code, went to parliament yesterday (27 October) to submit a petition to the House Committee on Legal Affairs, Justice, and Human Rights for the repeal of Section 112.</p>

<p>Chiang Mai University students petitioned the Chiang Mai University Council, the House Committee on Legal Affairs, Justice, and Human Rights, and the House Committee on Education to have university principle Dr Niwet Nantajit and Faculty of Fine Arts dean Asawinee Wanjing removed from office, after faculty and university administration prohibited students from exhibiting their theses in the University Art Centre as some pieces deal with social and political themes.</p>

<p>On 26 October, the Ratchadapisek Civil Court postponed its ruling in the compensation case of Chaiyaphum Pasae , a Lahu indigenous activist who was shot to death by soldiers in 2017.</p>