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<p dir="ltr"><em><strong>Update</strong>: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BBCThai/photos/a.1527194487501586.1073741828.1526071940947174/1766721413548891/?type=3&theater">The BBC Thai reported </a>that the military have abducted five persons, including Harit Mahaton and Nithi Kooltasnasilp in total on Wednesday morning. The name of another detainee among the five is Supachai Saibutr, 30. According to Supachai’s father, soldiers arrested him from his house at 5:30 am in Bangkok, citing national security. The father added that Supachai was taken to the 11th Military Circle in Bangkok.</em></p>
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<p>Not even a month after news of <a href="http://prachatai.org/english/node/6011">an army draftee beaten to death by other soldiers </a>caused public outrage, a doctor has concluded that another soldier in northeastern Thailand has been beaten to death in a military camp.</p>
<p>The Labour Court has been asked to allow the sacking of a labour activist who has won an award for promoting labour rights, for reasons of absenteeism and incompetence.</p>
<p>The IT Forging (Thailand) Co., Ltd, an automotive manufacturer in the eastern province of Rayong, submitted a petition to the Region 2 Labour Court in Chonburi Province to request permission to fire Boonyuen Sukmai, a labour activist who was awarded the 2014 Somchai Neelapaijit Prize for his work in promoting labour rights.</p>
<div>The junta head has said the military operation against the red-shirt protesters in 2010 was legally justified, denying allegations that he favoured the Democrat Party over Pheu Thai. </div>
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<div>On Monday, 25 April 2016, Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, the junta head and PM, said that the coup d’état in 2014 was inevitable since the country was in a political deadlock and the civil government lacked the capacity to solve the problem.
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<p>Police officers confiscated campaign flyers against the junta-sponsored draft constitution from an academic and attempted to take her to a police station.</p>
<p>At around 4 pm on Monday, 25 April 2016, police officers confiscated flyers titled ‘7 Reasons Not to Accept the Draft Constitution’ from Bencharat Sae-Chua, a political scientist teaching at Mahidol University, at a forum on the double questions on the draft constitution at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok.</p>
<p>The deputy junta head ordered the authorities to launch investigations into the People’s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) and the anti-establishment red shirts for announcing their stands on the draft constitution. </p>
<p>Thai News Agency reported on Monday, 25 April 2016, that Gen Prawit Wongsuwan, the deputy junta head and Defence Minister, told the media that no one is allowed to criticise the junta-sponsored draft constitution publicly as the Draft Referendum Act is already in force.</p>
<p>Military prosecutors have indicted six activists for demanding an investigation into the Rajabhakti Park corruption scandal. </p>
<p>At the Military Court of Bangkok on Monday afternoon, 25 April 2016, staff of the military Judge Advocate General’s Department, indicted Sirawit Serithiwat, a student activist from New Democracy Movement, Anon Nampa, a human rights lawyer and core leader of Resistant Citizen, Kititach Suman, Wisarut Anupoonkarn, Koranok Kamda and Wijit Hanhaboon, for violating the junta’s political gathering ban.</p>
<div>A Democrat deputy leader has criticized the Referendum Act for its heavy sentences and ambiguous content which can lead to arbitrary prosecution of those who oppose the referendum and the charter draft. </div>
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<div>On Sunday, 24 April 2016, the Thai News Agency <a href="http://www.tnamcot.com/content/453580">reported</a> that Ongart Klampaiboon, deputy leader of the Democrat Party, urged the Election Commission of Thailand (ECT) to clarify ambiguous content in the Referendum Act, enacted on 22 April 2016.</div>
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<p>The People’s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) anti-election group, has embraced the junta-sponsored draft charter, saying that it is a way out of the country’s political problems while the anti-establishment red shirts have urged the junta to lift the ban on debates over the draft. </p>
<p>Soldiers in the northeastern (Isan) province of Udon Thani are intimidating anti-mine activists ahead of a planned forum on the environmental effects of a potash mine. </p>
<p>The deputy head of the junta has urged police officers to increase their surveillance of social media as the public referendum on the controversial junta-sponsored draft constitution is drawing near.</p>
<p>A politician from the Pheu Thai Party recently released from military custody has told the media that his daughter has been pressured to leave the country. </p>