<div> <div>The junta head said that the royal artificial rain programme is not capable of solving the drought crisis, but if people ‘do good deeds,’ it might rain, adding that the junta will solve the crisis by following the King’s teaching.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On Friday, 3 June 2016, Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, the junta head and PM, said on the TV programme <em>Returning Happiness to the People</em>, a junta-produced TV programme which is broadcast nationwide every Friday evening, that the junta lacked the capacity to produce artificial rain, a project initiated by the King to solve d </div></div>

<p>Despite faint hopes, the parents of two Facebook users initially arrested for mocking the junta leader and later charged with lѐse majesté have requested the Office of His Majesty’s Principal Private Secretary to allow bail for their children.</p>

<p>A policeman and a military officer attempted to bar anti-establishment red shirts from holding a press briefing to open a centre to monitor the draft charter referendum despite the junta leader’s promise that opening such centres is allowed. &nbsp;</p> <p>Pol Col Suphon Khamchu and Sub Lt Sunthon Yoddee on Sunday, 5 June 2016, visited TV 24 broadcasting station in Lat Phrao District, Bangkok.</p>

<div>The authorities in Thailand’s restive Deep South have raided places affiliated to local civil groups, including an environmental group, a student activists group, and a martial art group. &nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Police and paramilitary rangers raided the house of Asmi Pu, president of Youth Network of Saiburi River, on Thursday at 5:30am. After the house was searched, Asmi was taken to the police station for questioning, according to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/wartanimap/?fref=ts">Wartani</a>, a citizen journalist group, based in&nbsp;</div> <div>Pattani Province. </div>

<div>A company who operated a highly controversial gold mine in northeastern Leoi Province has started libel suits in Leoi and Bangkok against a 15-year-old girl for her citizen reporting about the mine. While Bangkok police are investigating the case, the juvenile legal office in Leoi ruled that the company could not sue her.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The Juvenile Observation and Protection Office in Leoi Province on Thursday, 2 June 2016, ruled that the company could not file the criminal defamation suit against Wanpen Khuna to the Juvenile Court. </div>

<div>The junta head has said that if the Constitutional Court rules that the controversial Referendum Act is unconstitutional, the August referendum might be postponed. </div>

<p>One step closer to being tried by a Military Court, two embattled anti-junta academics stand firm, saying they only exercised the rights they are entitled to.</p>

<p>An embattled former Education Minister from the Pheu Thai Party has denied sedition charges, vowing to continue to fight the charges against him through civil disobedience.</p>

<p>An interpreter for the two men on trial for last year's deadly bombing in Bangkok denied he was carrying drugs when police arrested him Wednesday after he testified in their trial.</p>

<div> <div>For the first time, the junta has arranged a so-called attitude adjustment session outside a military barrack. </div></div>

<p>Thailand’s Office of the Ombudsman has concluded that the Referendum Act might be unconstitutional as its ambiguity allows the authorities to clamp down on the draft charter critics.</p> <p>Raksagecha Chaechai, Secretary-General of the Office of the Ombudsman, on Wednesday, 1 June 2016, announced that the Ombudsman’s Office will submit a request to the Constitutional Court to rule whether the 2016 Referendum Act is unconstitutional or not. &nbsp; &nbsp;</p>

<p>Uighur asylum seekers detained in Thailand’s immigration detention facility have started a hunger strike, saying that they would rather die than be sent back to China.</p>