<p>The Commission on Jurisdiction of Courts&nbsp; has decided that a lèse majesté suspect accused of mocking the late King’s favourite dog will be tried in a military court.</p> <p>On 26 June 2017, the Military Court of Bangkok read&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tlhr2014.com/th/?p=4510">the verdict of the Commission on Jurisdiction of Courts</a>&nbsp;on the case against Thanakorn S., a 27-year-old man from Samut Prakan Province.</p>

<p>Thailand’s junta-appointed parliament has passed a bill that will install a committee tasked with ensuring that future governments adhere to the National Council for Peace and Order’s (NCPO) strategic plans for the next twenty years. Governments which fail to bring to life the NCPO’s wishes will face prosecution by the National Anti-Corruption Commission.</p>

<p>The Appeal Court has dismissed the charges against a suspect known as the ‘popcorn gunman’ accused of attempting to murder red shirt protesters in February 2014.</p> <p>On 27 June 2017, judges read the Appeal Court’s verdict on Wiwat Yodprasit, a 25-year-old man accused of shooting at red shirt protesters during a confrontation between anti-establishment red shirts and People’s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) anti-election protesters in 2014.</p>

<p>A military court has postponed sentencing an elderly lèse majesté suspect who faces up to 50 years in prison after the suspect recanted his not guilty plea and confessed.</p> <p>At about 10 am on 26 June 2017, the Military Court of Bangkok postponed the sentencing of Tara W., a 59-year-old seller of Thai traditional medicine accused of violating Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lèse majesté law, after he pleaded guilty.</p> <p>The hearing has been postponed to 9 August 2017.</p>

<p>Bangkok’s Military Court has released on bail an embattled activist who was arrested one day before he planned to petition the junta for information about the controversial Thai-Chinese railway deal.</p> <p>On 26 June 2017, the Military Court of Bangkok granted bail to Rangsiman Rome, a key activist from the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/democracyrestoration/">Democracy Restoration Group (DRG)</a>, one day after he was arrested and detained overnight at Chanasongkram Police Station in Bangkok. Bail was set at 60,000 baht.</p>

<p>A political activist was taken into military custody Saturday morning for attempting to place a replica of the plaque commemorating the June 24, 1932, revolt at the spot where the original mysteriously disappeared from earlier this year.</p>

<p>The Thai authorities have blocked access to a youtube clip of the Charlie Chaplin's movie ‘the Great Dictator’.</p> <p>On 21 June 2017, a Facebook user reported that an access to a Youtube clip of the movie ‘<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Dictator">the Great Dictator</a>’ was blocked by&nbsp;the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society according to the&nbsp;<a href="https://web.facebook.com/lawyercenter2014/posts/1355420027841181">Thai Lawyer for Human Rights (TLHR)</a>. &nbsp;</p>

<p>Supporters of well-known anti-junta activist Jatuphat ‘Pai Dao Din’ Boonpattararaksa gathered to demand his release after half a year in detention for sharing a news article deemed defamatory to the monarchy.</p> <p>To mark the six months in prison of Jatuphat, a law student and key member of the New Democracy Movement (NDM), at least a dozen of people gathered at 6 pm on 22 June 2017 on the skywalk at Ratchaprasong Intersection, Bangkok, to demand his release.</p> <p>About 20 police officers in uniform and plain clothes closely monitored the event, but did not disrupt it.</p>

<p>Despite an earlier agreement, the military has not withdrawn its complaints against three human rights defenders who exposed torture in Thailand’s Deep South. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<div> <div> <div> <div>Some 30 security officers have raided the headquarters of the activist group Dao Din and confiscated documents about the controversial healthcare reform. When an activist asked to see a search warrant, a policeman gestured towards a military officer saying, “Here is the warrant.”</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Akhom Sibutta, a Dao Din student activist, was alone at the headquarters when it was raided in the early morning of 21 June 2017. </div></div></div></div>

<p>The drafters of the constitution claim that the new organic law requiring removal of the current National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) would make it more credible internationally. The commission chair disagrees. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>On 20 June 2017, Meechai Ruchuphan, chairman of the junta-appointed Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC)&nbsp;<a href="http://www.radioparliament.net/parliament/viewNews.php?nId=7794#.WUn2uDPDJxh">told the media</a>&nbsp;of the plan to remove the current commissioners at NHRC.</p>

<div> <div>Rangsiman Rome, a key student activist leader, has submitted his answers to Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha’s notorious four questions at the Ministry of Defence. </div></div>