<div> <div>A teenager from Thailand's northeast has been arrested for posting a lèse majesté message on Facebook. </div></div>

<div>Thailand’s Digital Ministry has increased its staff at an online surveillance centre tasked with searching for lèse majesté content as the country mourns its late King. </div>

<div><div>The UNHCR has denied its involvement with a Thai refugee accused of lèse majesté living in France and also condemned her for disrespecting King Bhumibol&rsquo;s death.</div></div>

<div> <div>Thai police commander has demanded that Thai people stop harassing lèse majesté offenders, adding that 12 people have been prosecuted since King Bhumibol’s death. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On 19 October 2016, Chakthip Chaijinda, Commissioner-General of the Royal Thai Police, asked the public to report lèse majesté cases to the police, rather than harassing suspected offenders. </div></div>

<div> <div>Thailand’s Justice Minister says that 'social sanction' is the best way to protect the monarchy, adding that Thais should do the same with lèse majesté offenders living abroad. Meanwhile, the junta has urged people to use the legal process rather than violence. &nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On 18 October 2016, Justice Minister Paiboon Kumchaya was asked by the media for his opinion about the <a href="http://www.prachatai.com/english/node/6654">vigilante attack against a soy milk seller in Phuket </a>accused of lèse majesté that occurred three days earlier. </div></div>

<div> <div>Despite standing next to a police officer, an elderly woman with a mental illness has been slapped in the face for allegedly insulting King Bhumibol. &nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Since 17 October 2016, Thai social media has been sharing a video clip of an elderly woman being scorned on a public bus. </div></div>

<div>A hyper-royalist doctor has urged Thai people in Paris to hunt for a lèse-majesté refugee and those who shelter her.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On 16 October, Rienthong Nanna, chairman of the ultra-royalist vigilante group Rubbish Collection Organisation (RCO), <a href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=596360307238974&amp;id=437000306508309">posted</a> on his Facebook account the address of Wanna, a Thai living in Paris. </div>

<p dir="ltr">Thai police have arrested two more people accused of lèse majesté in Southern Thailand, after royalist mobs stormed a soymilk and then a roti shop to hunt for lèse majesté suspects over the weekend. Soldiers and police have also searched a house in the Northeast whose owner is accused of lèse majesté. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p dir="ltr">On 16 October 2016, police officers took a suspect accused of violating Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lèse majesté law, to a police station in Koh Samui District of the southern province of Surat Thani.</p>

<p dir="ltr">An angry mob has stormed a roti shop in Southern Thailand, accusing the owner’s son of posting lèse majesté messages on Facebook.</p> <p dir="ltr">At night on 15 October 2016, a large mob of at least 100 people stormed a roti shop in Takua Thung District of the southern Phang Nga Province to look for a seaman of the Royal Thai Navy who is the son of the roti shop owner.</p> <p dir="ltr">The mob accused the seaman of posting messages on Facebook deemed defamatory to the Thai monarchy and demanded that he apologise for such action publically.</p>

<div>Thailand’s state communication board has asked internet service providers to set up 24/7 monitoring centres to search for “inappropriate content” across all social media platforms including Youtube, Facebook, Line and Twitter.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On 14 October 2016, Takorn Tantasith, secretary-general of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBCT), said that the commission has sent an&nbsp;<a href="http://prachatai.org/journal/2016/10/68355">order</a> to all Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Thailand.</div> <div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The order asked I </div></div>

<p>An angry mob in the southern province of Phuket has demanded the arrest of a man for posting a Facebook message deemed defamatory of the late King.</p> <p>At around 11:30 pm on 14 October 2016, a large crowd gathered in front of a soy milk shop in Talat Yai Subdistrict of Mueang District in Phuket and demanded that the owners of shop hand in their son to the police.</p>

<p dir="ltr">Thai authorities have reportedly arrested at least 44 youths from the Deep South suspected of involvement in an alleged Bangkok terrorism plot.</p> <p dir="ltr">On 13 October 2016, Sulhan Beeting, a member of the Deep South student group PNYS, reported that between 10-12 October 2016, Thai security officers arrested 44 youths from the Deep South. Most of the arrested were students from Ramkhamhaeng University in Bangkok.</p>