<p>Brief skirmishes between a group of unidentified individuals and an embattled community of sea nomadshave reportedly erupted again in the presence of public officials.</p>
<p><a href="https://web.facebook.com/maitree.jongkraijug/posts/1230026173697270?pnref=story">Maitree Jongkraijug</a>, a citizen journalist, reported that at about 1 pm on Wednesday, 25 May 2016, a large group of unidentified individuals equipped with an excavator used big rocks to block the entrance to a disputed land plot on Rawai beach of the southern province of Phuket.</p>
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<div>The police have searched the house of student activists campaigning for the Deep South’s right to self-determination. The activists said they felt threatened by the authorities’ action.
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<p>Refugee rights advocacy groups are urging the Thai authorities to end the indefinite detention of Rohingya refugees and to investigate the extrajudicial killing of a Rohingya refugee by the police. </p>
<p>The Migrant Working Group (MWG) and Coalition for the Rights of Refugees and Stateless Persons (CRRSP), on Tuesday, 24 May 2016, issued a joint statement, urging the Thai authorities to stop detaining asylum seekers indefinitely and to investigate the extrajudicial killing of a Rohingya refugee by police officers.</p>
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<div>The public prosecutor decided to file charges against human rights lawyer for hosting ‘standing still’ activities demanding for the release of junta critics. </div>
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<div>On Tuesday, 27 May 2016, Thailand Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) <a href="https://tlhr2014.wordpress.com/2016/05/27/anon_case/">reported</a> that the public prosecutor had filed charges under Public Assembly Act against Anon Nampa, a human right lawyer and a key member of Resistant Citizen, an anti-junta activist group, for hosting standing still activities to show support for and solidarity wit
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<div>The military has asked a university in the Deep South to ‘educate’ the opponents of a local coal-fired power plant.
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<p>The Thai junta leader has said that anyone blaming the government for the economic slump will be sued while his Deputy said that the people will not be happy without the junta premier. </p>
<p>The Military Court has handed out a three-month jail term to an elderly teacher accused of sedition for giving a flower to an anti-junta activist.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.matichon.co.th/news/144953">Matichon Online</a> reported that the Military Court of Bangkok at 11:40 am on Monday, 23 May 2016, sentenced Preecha Kaewbanpaew, a 77-year-old retired teacher, to six months’ imprisonment and fined him 8,000 baht.</p>
<p>A pro-junta women’s group gathered in front of the US Embassy in Bangkok at 11:30 am on Monday, 23 May 2016, calling for the ouster of the US Ambassador to Thailand.</p>
<p>The group of about 40 women calling themselves ‘Satri Si Siam’ (Siamese Ladies) submitted a letter addressed to US President Barack Obama, urging the US to remove Glyn T. Davies, the US Ambassador to Thailand, from his post.</p>
<p>The letter was accepted by staff of the US Embassy.</p>
<p>Minor skirmishes erupted between anti-coup and pro-junta groups as people gathered to commemorate the 2nd anniversary of the 2014 coup d’état.</p>
<p>On Sunday evening, 22 May 2016, about 500 people led by members of the New Democracy Movement (NDM) and several other pro-democracy political activist groups marched from Thammasat University, Tha Prachan Campus, to the Democracy Monument in Bangkok in an event called ‘2 Years with the Future that People Did Not Choose’.</p>
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<div>A military court has denied bail to two critics of the junta who have been charged with lèse-majesté, citing the severity of the charge.</div>
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<div>On Thursday, 19 May 2016, the Bangkok Military Court denied bail to Harit Mahaton and Natthika Worathaiwich, charged under the lèse-majesté law, ruling that the two might obstruct the investigation process and were flight risks.</div>
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<div>Their lawyer submitted a bail request with 700,000 baht surety for each individual.</div>
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<div>Harit and Natthika were two of the eight junta critics abdu
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<div>The EU Delegation has urged the junta to allow free discussion on the draft charter, saying that free discussion is a prerequisite for political reconciliation. </div>
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<div>Werner Langen, Chair of the EU Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the ASEAN, said that the EU Delegation was concerned by junta laws that criminalize criticism of the draft constitution, saying that political reconciliation cannot happen if the junta does not listen to everyone’s voice, BBC Thai <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BBCThai/photos/a.1527194487501586.</p>
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<div>The court has ordered a Deep South’s security agency to compensate two Muslim Malay, who were beaten and arbitrarily detained by the security force seven years ago. This is a very rare occasion where victims of human rights violation in the restive southernmost provinces get compensated.
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