<p dir="ltr">Soldiers and police officers in Chiang Mai intimidated a staff of Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR), asking whether he was distributing booklets against the junta-sponsored draft constitution or involving with Prachatai website.</p>

<p>After a Prachatai journalist was released on bail yesterday, soldiers and police officers in plainclothes came to the Prachatai office with a search warrant, asking the Director about Prachatai’s involvement with the anti-junta activist group. The authorities also searched journalists’ personal lockers.<br /></p>

<p>A group of men have threatened indigenous sea nomads in southern Thailand with guns in an attempt to force them off disputed land.</p>

<p>Despite his lack of legal knowledge, the junta leader has said that he will draft another constitution himself if the draft charter is rejected in the August referendum, adding that there is nothing he cannot do as he already passed parachute training in the military.&nbsp;<br /></p>

<p>A Provincial Court has freed a Prachatai journalist and pro-democracy activists arrested over campaign leaflets for the draft charter referendum. &nbsp; &nbsp;</p> <p>The Provincial Court of Ratchaburi Province on Monday afternoon, 11 July 2016, granted permission to the police to detain Taweeesak Kerdpoka, a Prachatai journalist, three anti-junta NDM activists, Pakorn Areekul, Anucha Rungmorakot and Anan Loked, and Phanuwat Songsawadchai, a student activist from Maejo University, Phrae campus.</p> <p>However, at around 4:30 pm the court granted bail for each of the five for 140,000 baht.</p>

<p>The Military Court has given a well-known anti-establishment red-shirt country singer an extra three years and four months’ imprisonment for lèse majesté to add to an earlier sentence of seven years and six months.</p> <p>The Military Court of Bangkok on Monday morning, 11 July 2016, handed Thanat Thanawatcharanon, 58, aka Tom Dundee, a country singer turned red-shirt activist, five years in prison for offences under Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lèse majesté law.</p> <p>The sentence, however, was reduced by one third to three years and four months after Thanat pleaded guilty.</p>

<p>The Civil Court has dismissed a case brought by Prachatai against the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT) for shutting down the website during the 2010 political violence; the Director says Prachatai will appeal as the verdict does not answer the question why the website faced a shutdown over a report that also appeared in other media.<br /></p>

<div> <div>A Prachatai journalist has been detained by police while he was reporting the activities of the New Democracy Movement (NDM) in central Ratchaburi Province. Three NDM activists have also been detained.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><em>Update: The police accused the four of violating Article 61 of the Referendum Act. </em></div></div>

<div>Activists and journalists in the Deep South of Thailand have been intimidated for producing t-shirts allegedly supporting the separatist movement. </div>

<p dir="ltr">The Military Court has granted bail to Thai junta critics who have been accused of lѐse majesté after their arrests.</p> <p dir="ltr">The Military Court of Bangkok on Friday, 8 July 2016, refused the sixth custody requests from the police to continue to detain Harit Mahaton and Natthika Worathaiwich, suspects under Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lѐse majesté law, and granted 500,000 baht bail for each of the suspects.</p>

<p>Thai employers are seriously abusing migrant workers from Myanmar on chicken farms, according to the Migrant Worker Rights Network (MWRN).</p> <p>At around 11 am on Thursday, 7 July 2016, staff of the MWRN and representatives of 14 migrant workers from Myanmar who had been employed on a chicken farm in Lopburi Province belonging to Betagro Company, a large agricultural and food products conglomerate in Thailand, submitted a letter to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).</p>

<div> <div>Citing national peace and order, a military court has given the green light to the prosecution’s request to hold the trial of six lèse majesté suspects in secret. </div></div>