<p><strong><em>Update</em></strong><em>: Retracting an earlier announcement, the junta leader said in the morning of 14 October 2016 that all TV channels will be allowed to broadcast normal programming after midnight on 14 October.</em></p> <p>The Thai authorities have ordered all TV channels to broadcast state programmes for at least 30 days while asking for cooperation for everyone not to engage in entertainment activities.</p>

<p dir="ltr">The Thai Crown Prince has announced that he is not yet ready to be enthroned as the next King, joining the public to mourn for the late King.</p> <p dir="ltr">At about 9:40 pm on 13 October 2016, Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, the junta leader and Prime Minister, told media after a special meeting at Parliament that Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn does not wish to be formally enthroned as the next King yet.</p>

<div>The world's longest reigning monarch has passed away, beginning a year of mourning. According to the Thai junta leader, the Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn will be the next King of Thailand. &nbsp;</div> <p></p>

<div>After a 12-year fight for justice, the authorities have closed their investigation into the disappearance of a human rights lawyer with no one being prosecuted.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On 12 October 2016, Angkhana Neelapaijit, a Commissioner of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC),&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154864956978268&amp;set=a.10151408427793268.551438.740933267&amp;type=3&amp;theater">posted</a>&nbsp;on her Facebook account that she had received a letter from the Department of Special Investigation (DSI).&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div</p> </div</p>

<p dir="ltr">The Deputy junta head said that the authorities are now hunting for people who are causing Thailand’s stock market to plummet rapidly.</p> <p>On 13 October 2016, Somkid Jatusripitak, the Deputy junta head on Economy, told media from the Government House, Bangkok, that he has ordered Securities and Exchange Commission of Thailand (SEC) to find people who are spreading rumours causing rapid fall on the nation’s stock market, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BBCThai/photos/a.1527194487501586.1073741828.1526071940947174/1832784330275932/?type=3&amp;theater">BBC Thai reported</a>.</p>

<div>The appointment of more senior soldiers to the junta’s rubber-stamp parliament was necessary to maintain national peace and order even though they have neither legislative experience nor legal knowledge, according to the junta’s chief legislator. </div>

<div>As Thais gather at Siriraj Hospital where the King is being treated to pray for his recovery, the Thai junta leader has abruptly cancelled public functions to return to Bangkok while some royal events have also been postponed.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On 12 October 2016, Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, the junta leader and Prime Minister, abruptly cancelled all his functions in the eastern province of Chonburi and returned to Bangkok.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The junta leader had just finished presiding over a ceremony to open a new building at the Battalion 21st Infantry Regiment in Chonburi </div>

<div>Overturning an earlier verdict, the Appeal Court has ordered a lower court to reconsider dismissing charges against a prominent anti-junta activist. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</div> <div>On 11 October 2016, the Pathumwan District Court in Bangkok read the Appeal Court’s order over the case of Apichat Pongsawat, a 27-year-old prominent anti-junta activist.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Apichat is indicted with violating the junta’s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) Order No. </div>

<p dir="ltr">A military court in northern Thailand has detained a man accused of defaming the Thai Crown Prince.</p> <p>On 11 October 2016, the Military Court of the northern province of Chiang Rai granted police permission to detain Sarawut (surname withheld due to privacy concerns), a 32-year-old optometrist.</p>

<div> <div>Amnesty International (AI) has urged its members worldwide to call upon the Thai junta to amend its controversial Computer Crimes Act.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On 11 October 2016, AI’s London headquarters launched an <a href="https://www.amnesty.or.th/sites/default/files/attachments/ua_-_cca_eng_0.pdf">urgent action</a> calling upon its seven million members around the world to appeal to the junta to amend the problematic Computer Crimes Act so as to conform to Thailand’s obligations under international human rights conventions that Thailand has voluntarily ratified. </div></div>

<p dir="ltr">A Buddhist monk in Isan, Thailand’s northeast, has confessed to the rape and murder of a six-year-old boy. &nbsp;</p> <p dir="ltr">On 11 October 2016, the police of Mancha Khiri District in the Isan province of Khon Kaen, told media that Niran Chonyuth,<a href="https://www.khaosod.co.th/featured/news_45274"> a 36-year-old Buddhist monk</a> from Sawang Kongkaram Temple, had confessed to the rape and murder of a six-year-old boy referred to as ‘Oat’.</p>

<div>Riot police have raided an apartment in Bangkok and arrested 10 suspects in the wake of warnings from a deputy police commander that car bomb attacks have been timed for late October.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="315" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fastv.manager.crime%2Fvideos%2F774992405974071%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560" style="border:none;overflow:hidden" width="560"></iframe></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div style</p> </div>