<p>The Thai junta leader scolded politicians for disagreeing with a plan to add an additional question to the public referendum on the draft constitution. &nbsp; &nbsp;</p> <p><a href="http://www.matichon.co.th/news/101837">Matichon Online reported&nbsp;</a>that Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, the junta leader and Prime Minister, on Monday, 11 April 2016, said that politicians have no right to disagree with him over the proposal to include another question in the public referendum to pass the draft constitution.</p> <p>The referendum is scheduled for 7 August 2016.</p>

<p>The Court has ruled that Somsak Jeamteerasakul, the embattled lèse majesté critic and ex-Thammasat lecturer now in self-imposed exile, is not guilty of leaving Thammasat University after the 2014 coup d’état.</p> <p>The Administrative Court on Monday, 11 April 2016, ruled that an order to fire Somsak Jeamteerasakul,56, was illegal.</p> <p>The court reasoned that it did not appear that Somsak intended to be absent from his lectureship at Thammasat University and that his position at the university prior to his self-imposed exile shall remain intact.</p>

<p>On the sixth anniversary of the political violence of 10 April 2010, families of people who died commemorated their loss.</p> <p>On Sunday, 10 April 2016, a political activist group called ‘Chili Peppers’ organised an event at Khok Wua Intersection, Bangkok, to mourn the people who died at the beginning of the military crackdown on demonstrators of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), the main red-shirt faction, on 10 April 2010. &nbsp;</p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">French edition of Marie Claire magazine has been banned because of an article related a member of Thai royal family. &nbsp; &nbsp;</p>

<p>An unidentified gunman has shot an activist who is a key witness to the murder of a land rights activist in southern Thailand.</p> <p>Supot Kansong, 42, a villager of Khlong Sai Pattana Community in Chai Buri District of Surat Thani, was ambushed by an unidentified gunman at around 3 pm on Friday, 8 April 2016.</p> <p>Supot was injured in the right thigh, hip and leg, but survived. He is currently being treated at Chai Buri Hospital.</p> <p>He was shot as he was driving back to the village after the tires of his car burst because nails had been spread on the road leading to the village.</p>

<p>The army officer commanding the 6 soldiers who beat to death an army recruit in the Deep South was promoted to his post despite the fact that he was involved in the fatal torture of a Deep South insurgent suspect in 2012. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<div> <div>Poor people across the country continue to be affected from the junta’s policy to reclaim protected areas. The latest eviction, without any relocation plan, involves 800 families in six villages in the northeastern province of Chaiyaphum.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Villagers who live in the protected area of Sai Thong National Park, Wang Takhe Sub-district, Nong Bua Rawe District, have been facing a state campaign to evict them since June 2014. </div></div>

<p dir="ltr">Human rights advocacy groups urged the authorities to take actions against the prime suspects of the enforced disappearance of a Karen activist after two years of no progress. &nbsp;</p> <p>On Thursday, 7 April 2016, representatives of 22 human rights advocacy groups, such as Cross Cultural Foundation (CrCF), Network of Thailand’s Ethnic Minorities and Human Rights Lawyer Association (HRLA), submitted a joint statement on the enforced disappearance of Porlajee Rakchongcharoen, aka Billy, a Karen human and community rights activist, to the Department of National Parks (DNP).</p>

<div> <p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-87e3ad9a-f4e6-7f03-2884-764a2a1d9dc9">The junta-appointed lawmakers have voted to include a motion on the right of senators to vote to approve PM.&nbsp;</span></p> </div>

<p>A group of progressive law scholars has denounced the draft constitution, saying it will only prolong the junta’s rule.</p> <p>The <a href="http://www.prachatai.org/english/category/nitirat">Nitirat group</a>, an association of progressive law academics known for their advocacy against Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lèse majesté law, on Thursday, 7 April 2016, issued a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.enlightened-jurists.org/blog/91">public statement&nbsp;</a>against the complete draft constitution written by the junta-appointed Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC).</p>

<div>LINE Corporation has banned cartoon stickers that lampoons the Thai royal family and issued an apology for its lack of “cultural sensitivity”. Meanwhile, the Thai police are searching for the stickers’ creators.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The sticker set, created by Anna Laurent, believed to be a pseudonym, was removed from the application before 4 am on Thursday. The set is composed of 40 cartoon images, involving six main characters -- a father, a mother and their four grown-up children. A description of the set read ‘A happy family wants to share its emotions with the world . . </div>

<p>Six soldiers are to be jailed for beating to death a military recruit in the Deep South of Thailand.</p>