<div>Thai officials asked Google to make an exception and remove content without a court order, according to leaked details of a meeting this past Friday with top executives from the U.S.-based search giant.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The second meeting between Google legal reps and a junta censorship committee was detailed in a document leaked by Thai net freedom advocates hours before Anonymous-aligned hacktivists shut down 20 Department of Corrections websites Thursday morning.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On Wednesday night, a group of Thai activists opposed to government intrusion online pu </div>

<p>An international human rights agency has downgraded Thailand’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) due to failures in addressing human rights issues.</p>

<p dir="ltr">Military officers have intervened in a land conflict between investors and a seafarer minority community in Phuket after violent skirmishers yesterday.</p>

<p>More than 100 migrant workers employed on construction sites in northern Thailand have been left unpaid by a real estate company.</p> <p>According&nbsp;<a href="http://www.prachatham.com/article_detail.php?id=398">Prachatham News</a>, at 9 am on Wednesday, 27 January 2016, 121 migrant workers demonstrated at the Labour Protection and Welfare Office of the northern province of Chiang Mai.</p>

<p>Skirmishes erupted between men reportedly hired by investors and a seafarer minority group in Phuket after a two-days standoff while military officers allegedly sided with the investors.</p>

<p>The juvenile court in Thailand’s restive Deep South dismissed charges against the first Buddhist youth in the region accused of rebelling against the state.</p> <p>According to the Cross Cultural Foundation (CrCF), a human rights advocacy group, and Muslim Attorney Center (MAC), the Juvenile and Family Court of the Deep South province of Narathiwat acquitted a former novice from Yala province referred to as Mr. A [name not disclosed to protect his identity] accused of charges related to national security.</p>

<p>The Provincial Court in the eastern province of Trat has dismissed murder charges against three suspects in a PDRC bombing case, but sentenced one suspect to five years in jail for possessing illegal weapons. &nbsp; &nbsp;</p> <p>Trat Provincial Court on Tuesday, 26 January 2016, dismissed murder charges against Watchara Krajangklang, Somsak Poonsawad, and Somsak Sunan, three suspects in the bombing case of a People’s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) anti-election protest in 2014.</p>

<p>An Andaman Sea conservation group in southern Thailand has accused the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) of trying to obstruct efforts to protect a delta area in the country’s famous beach resort province of Krabi. &nbsp; &nbsp;</p> <p>On Tuesday morning, 26 January 2016, at least 15 members of&nbsp;<a href="https://web.facebook.com/stopcoalkrabi">Save Andaman from Coal</a>, a conservation group opposed to coal-fired power plants based in Krabi gathered at the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) in Bangkok.</p>

<p>The Thai junta leader has scolded Amnesty International’s campaign for Thai political dissidents, saying that the organization encourages people who have violated the law.</p> <p>After the abduction of Sirawit Serithiwat, a pro-democracy student activist leader, last week, Amnesty International (AI) started a campaign calling on its members to send letters to Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, the junta leader and Prime Minister, and Don Pramudwinai, Minister of Foreign Affairs, to demand that the regime drop charges against Sirawit and other dissidents.</p>

<p>A well-known embattled anti-junta activist who was abducted and reportedly abused last week, has filed charges against military officers while human rights organisations urge the junta to end arbitrary arrests and the ban on political gatherings.</p> <p>Sirawit Serithiwat, a pro-democracy student activist leader from Thammasat University, at 2 pm on Monday, 25 January 2016, with Anon Nampa, a human rights lawyer, filed a complaint at Khlong Luang Police Station, Pathum Thani Province, against military officers who detained him last week.</p>

<p dir="ltr">A German expat in Chonburi province went to police yesterday to complain that not only was someone impersonating him on Facebook but doing it to post insulting messages about the monarchy.</p> <p>Manfred Peter Gallus, 58, told police he had nothing to do with a Facebook profile used primarily to publish crude remarks about the royal family, libelous statements punishable by up to 15 years in prison per offense under the law.</p>

<p dir="ltr">In a move to discipline netizens, the Thai police has set up millions of baht of budget to purchase a new software to monitor social media. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>According to <a href="https://www.blognone.com/node/77066">Blognone News</a>,The Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD) of the Royal Thai Police has announced a &nbsp;bidding to purchase a software to monitor facebook, twitter, and Pantip.com. a Thai-language website discussion forum.</p>