<p>After two lèse majesté suspects died in custody within 14 days, the Thai Minister of Justice had told the media that suicides and fatal illnesses in detention facilities are not strange.</p> <p>On Tuesday, 10 November 2015, Gen Paiboon Kumchaya, Minister of Justice, said that he personally informed Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, the junta’s leader and Prime Minister, about the death of Suriyan Sucharitpolwong, aka Mo Yong, a well-known fortune-teller who was charged under Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lèse majesté law, for making false claims about the monarchy for personal benefit.</p>

<p>A rumour that the Thai military government will withdraw support for several publicly-funded educational organisations has caused a stir on social media.</p> <p>On Monday, 9 November 2015, Duangrit Bunnag, a well-known Thai architect, posted a message on Facebook that it has been confirmed that the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday will discuss a plan to withdraw support for leading public educational organisations under the Office of Knowledge Management and Development (OKMD).</p>

<p>A well-known fortune teller accused under the lèse majesté law of making false claims about the monarchy for personal benefit has died in custody.</p> <p>Gen Paiboon Kumchaya, the Minister of Justice, on Monday, 9 November 2015, announced that Suriyan Sucharitpolwong, aka Mo Yong, a well-known fortune-teller, died in custody at the remand facility in the 11th Army Division&nbsp;<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">o</span>n Nakhon Chaisri road, Bangkok.</p>

<p>A court has dismissed charges against an anti-election protester accused of preventing the 2014 advance election, saying that it was election officials who cancelled the election.</p> <p>The Phra Khanong District Court, Bangkok, on Thursday, 5 November 2015, dismissed charges against Thawatchai Promchan, 45, a former key leader of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/thaienergynetwork/">People’s Force and Thai Energy Reform Network</a>, a political group which joined the People’s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC), an anti-election group, to prevent advance voting in 2014.</p>

<p>Thai academics have claimed that a campaign to make Buddhism the state religion of Thailand goes against human rights principles.</p> <p>On Wednesday and Thursday, 4-5 November 2015,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlItmSYhLVM&amp;feature=youtu.be">Thaivoice Media</a>&nbsp;posted on YouTube a video interview of Surapot Thaweesak, a well known religious scholar.</p>

<p>Thai anti-junta activists indicted under the junta’s political gathering ban have refused the jurisdiction of military courts in their cases, reasoning that they should be tried by the courts of justice.</p>

<p>A radical Buddhist monk who proposed that the government burn a mosque for each Buddhist monk killed in the restive Deep South has temporarily shut down his Facebook account at the request of the Thai authorities after many campaigned against his ideas.</p>

<div><em>Unexplained attacks on members of different religious communities in Mawlamyine are seen as attempts to foment inter-communal tensions ahead of the Nov. 8 elections.&nbsp;</em></div> <p></p>

<p>The cabinet under Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, the junta leader and Prime Minister, has given the green light to a proposal to shorten the EIA process by half to speed up mega construction projects.</p> <p>According to the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tnamcot.com/content/322508">Thai News Agency</a>, Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak, the junta’s chief economic advisor, said on Tuesday, 3 November 2015, that the cabinet has approved a plan to cut short the process of conducting Environmental Assessment Impacts (EIA) on PPP (Public and Private Partnership) mega projects.</p>

<p>In an analysis of the development of Thai identity and culture, an academic argues that much of what was promoted by the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) as Thai identity and culture in the 1950s was invented for US consumers. &nbsp;</p> <p>“It's the American consumers who showed the urban middle class Thais what to value about Thai culture,” said Matthew Phillips, a Southeast Asian Studies academic from Aberystwyth University in the UK, at the launch of his book at Thammasat University, Tha Prachan Campus, on Tuesday, 3 November 2015.</p>

<p>The Thai authorities have drafted a master plan to promote ‘morality’ based on sufficiency, honesty, and responsibility as a national programme. &nbsp;</p> <p>According to Daily News, Gen Thanasak Patimaprakorn, Deputy Prime Minister and head of the National Committee to Promote Morality established under the Ministry of Culture, on Monday, 2 November 2015, revealed that the Committee approved a master plan to promote morality as a national programme at its first meeting.</p>

<p>Military officers in northern Thailand summoned a group of anti-establishment red shirts for a discussion after they wore red shirts.</p> <p>According to&nbsp;<a href="https://tlhr2014.wordpress.com/2015/11/02/redshirt_1nov/">Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR)</a>, military officers in the northern province of Chiang Rai summoned Somchai Saengthong and three other red shirts for a meeting at the 37th Army Division on Monday morning, 2 November 2015.</p>