<p>The Defence Minister has threatened to send a journalist from the Bangkok Post to an attitude adjustment session.</p>

<p>Soldiers last night were granted sweeping authority to conduct warrantless searches of homes, seize assets and detain civilians without charge.</p> <p>On the order of junta chief Prayuth Chan-ocha, a wide range of powers usually reserved for civilian police were bestowed to members of the military Tuesday night, ostensibly to carry out the junta’s policy of rooting out underworld influences and unduly “influential people” in the economy and society.</p>

<p>The Thai military have summoned 2 journalists in the northern province of Chiang Mai for a discussion over a news report about a red bowl inscribed with Thai new year greetings from former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.</p>

<p>Loei Provincial Court has dismissed a civil lawsuit filed by a gold mining company against key leaders of an anti-mine group. &nbsp;</p> <p>The Provincial Court of the northeastern province of Loei on Wednesday, 30 March 2016, dismissed charges against six key members of Khon Rak Ban Koed (KRBK), translated as ‘People Who Love Their Home’, an anti-mine group comprising villagers from six villages in Wang Saphung District of Loei.</p>

<p>The Thai junta has prohibited a well-known anti-junta journalist of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.khaosodenglish.com/">Khaosod English News&nbsp;</a>from attending a conference on World Press Freedom Day in Finland. &nbsp;</p> <p>Pravit Rojanaphruk, 48, a well-known anti-junta journalist from Khaosod English, on Wednesday morning, 30 March 2016, posted a message on his Facebook profile that the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) had prohibited him from attending a conference on World Press Freedom Day on 3 May, to be held in Finland.</p>

<p>Thai military have detained fishermen in eastern Thailand who earlier launched a complaint to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) about an eviction by the military. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p>Pressured by Buddhist groups to enshrine Buddhism as a national religion, the constitution drafters have met the demands halfway by providing mechanisms in the new draft constitution to protect Buddhism.</p> <p>On Tuesday afternoon, 29 March 2016, the junta-appointed Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC) headed by Meechai Ruchuphan unveiled&nbsp;<a href="http://www.parliament.go.th/ewtcommittee/ewt/draftconstitution2/ewt_dl_link.php?nid=429&amp;filename=index">the finalised draft constitution</a>. The fate of the draft will be decided by public referendum in August.</p>

<p>The Thai junta has proposed to turn attitude adjustment sessions into a special course for politicians while the junta leader said that politicians who do not understand the regime should not be politicians.</p> <p>Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, the junta leader and Prime Minister, on Monday, 28 March 2016, told the media at Government House that the so-called attitude adjustment sessions, coercive discussions forced upon political dissidents by the military, will become more standardised.</p>

<p>Thai military summoned a villager in the northern province of Chiang Mai for posting a picture of a red bowl with the signature of the controversial former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on it and accused her of sedition.</p>

<div>The draft referendum bill sets heavy sentences for denouncing the referendum or publishing polls predicting the result too close to voting day on August 7. </div>

<div> <div>Personal information about foreigners living in southern Thailand was leaked on a website with the logo of the Thai Immigration Bureau. The website was taken down after Thai media reported it.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Thai Netizen Network reported on Sunday, 28 March 2016, that they found a website which revealed the name, visa status, passport number and address of foreigners living in southern Thailand. </div></div>

<p>Military officers cited absolute power to abduct a Pheu Thai party politician and reportedly threatened to arrest his family.</p> <p><a href="http://www.matichon.co.th/news/85651">Matichon Online</a>&nbsp;reported that on Sunday, 27 March 2016, Watana Muangsook, a key leader of the Pheu Thai party, sent a message via the Line chat application to a reporter at 6:08 pm, saying that military officers in two military vehicles visited his house in Bangkok while he was not at home.</p>