<p>After being imprisoned for almost two years, a well-known anti-establishment red-shirt country singer recanted earlier statements and pleaded guilty to a lèse majesté charge.</p>
<p>At the Criminal Court on Ratchadaphisek Rd., Bangkok, on Monday morning, Thanat Thanawatcharanon, 58, aka Tom Dundee, a country singer-turned-red-shirt activist, pleaded guilty to an offence under Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lèse majesté law.</p>
<p>Thanat was indicted on two lèse majesté charges.</p>
<p>An ultra-royalist doctor says that patients can rest assured that most medical staff in his hospital are pro-junta royalists.</p>
<p>A public university has notified its lecturers not to criticise the junta-sponsored draft constitution, saying public institutions have to support the government.</p>
<p>Arjinjonathan Arjinkit, lecturer of the Faculties of Humanities and Social Science of Rajabhat Rajanagarindra University in the central province of Chachoengsao posted a status on his Facebook account on 25 May titled ‘When the university monitors your Facebook’.</p>
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<div>For four years, children in a kindergarten in the northeastern province of Khon Kaen have been ordered to wear military uniforms once a week.
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<p>Northern Thai villagers have filed a lawsuit against a mining company, saying that their health and local environment have been affected by mining activities.</p>
<p>A Provincial Court in northern Thailand has acquitted a Hmong man accused by national park officers of encroaching into a protected area.</p>
<p><a href="https://tlhr2014.wordpress.com/2016/05/26/hmong_paivillager/">Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR)</a> reported that the Provincial Court of the northern province of Mae Hong Son on Wednesday, 25 May 2016, acquitted Su Wangpoh, a 58-year-old Hmong from Pai District of the province.</p>
<p>A Provincial Court in northeastern Thailand has dismissed charges against five soldiers and a member of the Territorial Defence Volunteer Corps (TDVC) accused of shooting a local redshirt leader.</p>
<p>The Provincial Court of the northeastern province of Udon Thani on Thursday, on 26 May 2016, dismissed charges against five soldiers from a military base in the western province of Kanchanaburi and a TDVC member accused of shooting Kwanchai Sarakam, leader of the People Who Love Udon Club, a local anti-establishment red shirt group.</p>
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<div>The proposed amendments to the controversial Computer Crime Act will increase online surveillance and censorship by expanding legal boundaries and obliging Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to comply with government censorship measures.
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<p dir="ltr">International rights organisations have expressed concerns that the amendment of the Computer Crime Act might violate the rights to freedom of expression and to privacy.</p>
<p dir="ltr">On Thursday, 26 May 2016, Amnesty International, the Thai Netizen Network (TNN) and Privacy International handed a joint statement to Pol Gen Chatchawan Suksomjit, Chair of the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) committee vetting the amended version of the Computer Crime Act.</p>
<p>Thai society will become an aging society before the country manages to move up from the middle-income trap, said an economist and a businessman.</p>
<p>Dr Kirida Bhaopichitr, Director for International Research and Advisory Service of the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI), has pointed out that according to current projections, Thailand will become an aged-society in about a decade from now, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BBCThai/posts/1777098255844540:0">BBC Thai</a> reported on Thursday, 26 May 2016.</p>
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<div>Civil society and student activists have rallied at military bases in Bangkok and the southern province of Songkhla after the military recently asked a university to silence academics who oppose a coal-fired power plant. Southern civil society also accused the military of being biased in favour of investors.</div>
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<div>The Commander of the 42nd Military Circle recently submitted a letter asking the President of Prince of Songkla University to ‘educate’ opponents of a controversial coal-fired power plant under construction in the southern province of Songkhla.
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<p>The Provincial Court has sentenced seven villagers in northern Thailand to one year’s imprisonment for encroaching onto private property.</p>
<p>The Provincial Court of the northern province of Lamphun on Wednesday, 25 May 2016, read the Supreme Court’s verdict, confirming the ruling of the Appeal Court to sentence seven villagers from Ban Phae Tai Village of Wiang Nong Long District of Lamphun to one year’s imprisonment without suspending the jail term for encroaching onto a private land plot of Inthanon Kankaset Company.</p>