<div> <div>The Interior Minister has said the junta will collect the ID numbers of anyone who gives feedback on the four questions about elections posed by junta head Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha to the public last week.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On 26 May 2017 during his weekly televised address, Prayut asked four questions seeking feedback on the issue of elections.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The four questions were:</div> <ol> <li>Will the next election lead to ‘good governance’?</li> <li>If not, what should be done?</li> <li>Is it right to focus only on elections, at the expense of the co<br /> </li></ol></div>

<div> <div>An attorney general has decided not to indict a woman accused of sedition for posting a Facebook status criticising a military-involved corruption case, reasoning that her opinion is in the public interest.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On 30 May, an attorney from Phra Khanong provincial court chose <a href="http://www.tlhr2014.com/th/?p=4341">not to indict Cham</a> (pseudonym) for breaching the sedition law and the Computer Crimes Act, of which she had been accused by the military after she posted on her Facebook account that <a href="http://www.prachatai.org/english/node/6574">R </a></div></div>

<p dir="ltr">A provincial court has granted bail to a prominent anti-junta activist accused of contempt of court after he denied the charge.</p> <p dir="ltr">On 31 May 2017, the Provincial Court of Khon Kaen held a hearing for seven youth activists accused of contempt of court &nbsp;for organising activities on 10 February 2017 in symbolic support of <a href="http://prachatai.org/english/category/jatuphat-boonpattararaksa">Pai Dao Din</a> that were designed to draw attention to issues in Thailand’s justice system.</p>

<div> <div>A Finnish court has held the first hearing in a lawsuit filed by 50 Thai labourers against a Finnish company for inadequate working conditions. </div></div>

<p>After a legal battle lasting almost 8 years, a torture victim wrongfully arrested for theft has lodged a civil lawsuit against the Thai police.</p> <p>Rittirong Chuenjit, 26, on 26 May 2017 filed suit against the Royal Thai Police at the Southern Bangkok Civil Court.</p>

<p>A democracy activist accused of defying the junta’s ban on political gatherings&nbsp;and the controversial referendum act has vowed to fight the case in a military court while the military prosecutor wants his right to vote to be suspended for a decade.</p> <p>The Military Court of Bangkok on 24 May 2017&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tlhr2014.com/th/?p=4320">held a deposition hearing&nbsp;</a>in the case of Rakchat Wongathichat, a member of the New Democracy Movement (NDM).</p>

<div>After a court ruled them guilty of causing global warming, 11 villagers have appealed and pleaded for a court fee exemption. The authorities are increasingly using judicial harassment against local people whose traditional homes overlap with national park areas, says an NGO.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On 29 May 2017, villagers from Huai Kontha, Phetchabun province, <a href="https://prachatai.com/journal/2017/05/71691">appealed their</a> case before Lom Sak Provincial Court. </div>

<p>Military staff have joined the orientation of a prestigious primary school, but online criticism seems to have led to removal of all images from the school’s websites.</p>

<p>Three years after the last coup d’état, human rights lawyers have argued that the junta could not hold power without the support of the country’s judicial institutions.</p> <p>Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) on 27 May 2017 released&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tlhr2014.com/th/?p=4307">a report</a>&nbsp;about the relationship between the military government and judicial institutions.</p>

<div> <div>After three years under the junta, a nationwide poll has found that 50.6% of citizens desire as soon as possible — a jump in support for democracy from previous years. </div></div>

<p>Police have raided the village of a murdered Lahu activist and arrested several of his family members in an alleged drug crackdown.</p> <p>On 29 May 2017, policemen and officers from the Narcotics Suppression Bureau<a href="https://www.matichon.co.th/news/569339">&nbsp;arrested&nbsp;</a>five people from Ban Kong Phak Ping in Chiang Dao District of Chiang Mai.</p> <p>Among the five is Chanthana Pasae, 20, a relative of&nbsp;<a href="https://prachatai.com/english/node/7020">Chaiyapoom Pasae</a>, a young ethnic Lahu activist who was summarily killed by a soldier on 17 March.</p>

<div>Security forces have detained a 51-year-old woman in a military camp for interrogation over alleged involvement in the recent bombing of an army-run hospital.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The woman <a href="http://www.naewna.com/local/272444">was arrested</a> from her home in Bangkok in the evening of 27 May 2017, before being transferred to the 11th Military Circle. </div>