<div> <div>A military court has given an 8 months suspended jail term to a suspect who refused to comply with a junta order. &nbsp;He also faces a lèse majesté charge</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On 25 November 2016, Bangkok Military Court found Sirapop (surname withheld for privacy concerns) guilty of breaching a junta order. The court sentenced him to 1 year in jail and an 18,000 baht fine. </div></div>

<p>A provincial court in eastern Thailand has granted bail to a man arrested for lèse majesté after he was beaten by a group of vigilantes for allegedly insulting the late King on social media. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>On 22 November 2016, the Provincial Court of Chonburi Province granted 200,000 baht bail to a 19-year-old man referred to as ‘K’,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tlhr2014.com/th/?p=2844">Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR)</a>&nbsp;reported.</p>

<p dir="ltr">Thailand’s cabinet has halted plans to build a controversial coal-fired power plant in the southern Krabi province. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<div>Police have arrested three people in the north of Thailand for distributing flyers deemed as incitement and transferred them to the military which is detaining them incommunicado. &nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On 22 November 2016, Pol Gen Srivara Ransibrahmanakul, the Deputy Commissioner of the Royal Thai Police, said that police have arrested three people from Chiang Mai province for distributing documents against the ruling junta. </div>

<p dir="ltr">A well-known whistleblower has asked the Thai junta for protection after being allegedly harassed by unknown men. &nbsp;</p>

<div>Produced by GMM One, “I Was Born in the Reign of Rama IX: The Series” aired Monday through Thursday last week with lessons of morality and a political subtext weighted by reverence for King Bhumibol.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The four-episode series, which began after a month-long ban on entertainment lapsed, followed several middle-class Thais from Oct. 13 when they heard the news through Oct. </div>

<p dir="ltr">A government board has approved a series of special projects that come under the Eastern Economic Corridor Development initiative. 48 projects, valued at almost 7 billion baht collectively, will be executed across 60 years beginning from 2017.</p>

<p dir="ltr">The amended version of the controversial Computer Crime Act will give the Thai authorities a blank check to close down websites as the regime wishes, said an internet freedom advocate. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p dir="ltr">A deputy junta head has revealed that the Thai government has set up a committee to discuss with Malaysia plans to build a wall along the Malaysian-Thai border. The wall would aim to counter transborder crimes and resolve dual citizenship issues. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p>An association against global warming has filed a lawsuit against five Thai government entities over plans to build more coal-fired power plants.</p>

<div>The Royal Thai Army has initiated an investigation after a video emerged on social media of a soldier being violently beaten by his supervisors.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On 18 November 2016, a video clip of a soldier being repeatedly beaten by his supervisors was widely shared on Thai social media. In the video, the soldier was hit hard with rods and kicked in the head. A supervisor is heard warning him not to express pain and threatening to restart the punishment if he does so. Surrounding soldiers also participated in the punishment. </div>

<p>A military court in northern Thailand has released a man after he spent more than a month in detention accused of defaming the Thai Crown Prince.</p> <p>On 17 November 2016, the Military Court of northern Chiang Rai Province granted bail to Sarawut (surname withheld due to privacy concerns), a 32-year-old optometrist, <a href="http://www.tlhr2014.com/th/?p=2800">Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) reported</a>.</p>