<p>A Thai maths teacher has boasted proudly of humiliating students by shaving some of their hair. </p>
<p>On 18 May 2017, a maths teacher of Hua Phluang Community School in Tha Tako District of Nakhon Sawan Province whose Facebook account name is ‘<a href="https://www.facebook.com/worawut.sirithum.7/posts/294885237634926?pnref=story">Worawut Sirithum</a>’, posted a set of photos of schoolchildren with their heads shaved unevenly.</p>
<p>“For those who asked for it, I have delivered,” reads the caption of the post.</p>
<p>Uniformed and plainclothes officers have fenced off a plaque commemorating a teenager who was shot dead seven years ago during the government’s crackdown on red shirt protesters. Officers loitered around as loved ones commemorated the boy’s passing.</p>
<p>A network of academics and civil society groups in Chiang Mai have placed a plaque on the spot where a young Lahu activist was summarily killed by a soldier to call for justice.</p>
<p>On 17 May 2017, a network of academics based in Chiang Mai University led by Attachak Sattayanurak and Somchai Preechasinlapakun, history and law lecturers, and others attended a ceremony to place a plaque in an area close to the checkpoint in Chiang Dao District of Chiang Mai.</p>
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<div>After threatening to shut down Facebook for not blocking 131 illegal pages, the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) let the deadline pass after 34 were blocked. More than 6,000 Facebook pages have been already taken down, according the junta head.</div>
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<div>On 16 May 2017, NBTC Secretary-General Takorn Tantasith told the media that the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society (MDE) has already sent court orders to shut down 34 out of 131 illegal pages to Facebook.
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<p dir="ltr">Unknown group of men has abducted a school director in the restive Deep South.</p>
<p>At night on 14 May 2017, a group of men abducted Daho Ma-taworn, director of Ta-Deeka School of Tung Po Village in Saba Yoi District of Songkhla Province while he was on his way home.</p>
<p>At around midnight, Daho called his wife and told her that a group of masked men put a gun against his head before blindfolding him and took him to an unknown location.</p>
<p>A Thai mining company operating in Myanmar has filed a criminal defamation lawsuit against a Thai journalist for reporting alleged environmental damage.</p>
<p>On 14 May 2017, Reporters Without Borders, journalists, and civil society groups from Thailand and Myanmar issued a joint statement to support Pratch Rujivanarom, a Nation Multimedia Group journalist.</p>
<p>The group demands that Myanmar Pongpipat Co Ltd (MPC), a Thai mining company operating in Myanmar, withdraw lawsuits filed against Pratch and The Nation.</p>
<p>The Criminal Court has refused to release on bail a human rights lawyer facing up to 50 years in prison for royal defamation and sedition.</p>
<p>The Criminal Court on Ratchadaphisek Rd., Bangkok, on 11 May 2017, renewed the detention period for Prawet Praphanukul, a human rights lawyer accused of violating Articles 112 and 116 of the Criminal Code, the lèse majesté law and the sedition law.</p>
<div>The Army Cyber Centre (ACC) claims to have taken down 435 websites committing lèse majesté since October last year, when King Bhumibol passed away.
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<p>The Criminal Court has detained a 53-year-old Facebook user accused of lèse majesté after he was arrested by the military and held for six days in a military base. </p>
<p>On 11 May 2017, the Criminal Court on Ratchadaphisek Rd., Bangkok, remanded in custody Ekarit (surname withheld due to privacy concerns), a 53-year-old man accused of violating Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lèse majesté law.</p>
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<div>Six student activists have chosen to petition the court over their contempt of court charges, arguing their symbolic actions and songs outside a provincial court in support of Jatuphat ‘Pai Dao Din’ Boonpattararaksa were a legitimate exercise of the freedom of expression.</div>
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<div>On 8 May 2017, <a href="https://prachatai.com/english/node/7010">the activists</a> delivered a petition against their charges to Khon Kaen Provincial Court.
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<p dir="ltr">The police have arrested the host of a TV programme exposing irregularities in food supplies to a prison.</p>
<p dir="ltr">On 9 May 2017, according<a href="http://www.manager.co.th/Crime/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=9600000047138"> the Manager Online </a>police officers arrested Yutthiyong Limlertwathee, the 51-year-old host of the TV programme ‘Sapha Kafae, Sapha Prachachon’ on ASTV News 1 Channel, at a coffee shop in Wang Thonglang District of Bangkok.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The Criminal Court has refused to release a lecturer arrested for sharing a Facebook post written by an academic blacklisted by the junta, despite the defendant promising almost one million baht as surety for bail.</p>
<p>On 9 May 2017, the Criminal Court on Ratchadaphisek Rd., Bangkok, <a href="http://www.tlhr2014.com/th/?p=4221">denied a bail request </a>with a 927,000 baht surety for a university lecturer who requested anonymity accused of violating Article 112 of the Criminal Code, lèse majesté law.</p>