<p>The Thai junta has summoned a renowned cartoonist from Thairath, the biggest circulation newspaper in Thailand, for ‘attitude adjustment’, saying that he distorted facts about the regime. &nbsp;</p> <p>The junta’s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) summoned Sakda Sae-eaw, known by his penname of Sia, a cartoonist whose column is on Thairath page 3, to report to the Royal Thai Army Headquarters in Bangkok at 10 am on Sunday, 4 October 2015.</p>

<div>A renowned cartoonist of Thairath, a daily newspaper with biggest circulation in Thailand, was summoned by the military for his cartoons criticizing junta, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/VoiceTVonline/posts/10154430903474848">Voice TV </a>reported on Sunday morning.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The report said Sakda Sae-eaw, known by his penname as “Sia,” a cartoonist whose column is on Thairath page 3, reported in at the Royal Thai Army Headquarter on Sunday morning. &nbsp;&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div>

<div> <div><span style="font-size: 12px;">27 years later, a renowned historian’s 1988 groundbreaking book on Thai royal nationalism and geography is still garnering new interpretations and discussion.&nbsp;</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Thongchai Winichakul, a professor of Southeast Asian History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison whose best-known work is <em>Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation</em>, offered authorial insights at a public discussion held at Thammasat University on 3 October 2015. </div></div>

<p>Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health has included more than half a million more people in the free public healthcare system as of October 2015.</p> <p>According to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.posttoday.com/social/health/391457">Post Today News</a>, Surapong Kongchantuk, Chair of the Lawyers Council of Thailand's Human Rights Subcommittee on Ethnic Minorities, the Stateless, Migrant Workers and the Displaced, revealed on Thursday, 1 October 2015, that 626,027 more people will now be able to enjoy the same free public healthcare that all Thai citizens are entitled to.</p>

<p>The Military Court has for the first time in history suspended the jail term for a lèse majesté conviction in the case of a pro-establishment yellow shirt accused of publishing a false royal statement.</p> <p>The Military Court of Bangkok on Tuesday, 29 September 2015, sentenced Niran Yaowapa, a former editor of <a href="http://manager.co.th/home/">ASTV Manager Online</a>, a yellow-shirt news outlet, to five years imprisonment under Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lèse majesté law, and Article 14 of the 2007 Computer Crime Act for importing illegal computer content.</p>

<p>Despite the recent cyber-attacks on government websites from netizens opposed to the single internet gateway, the Thai authorities say that they will continue to study its feasibility.</p> <p>On Thursday afternoon, 1 October 2015,&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica;">Uttama Savanayana</span>, the Minister of Information and Communications Technology (MICT), held a press briefing about symbolic cyber-attacks on several government websites on Wednesday night by internet users who oppose government plans to reduce internet gateways to one.</p>

<p dir="ltr">An ultra-royalist organisation and a pro-coup monk have organised rallies in front of the US embassy in Bangkok, calling the US and human rights groups not to criticise the lese majeste law and to send back people allegedly defaming the Thai monarchy believed to be in the US. &nbsp;</p>

<p>Thai police have threatened to use the Computer Crime Act against anyone attacking a government website to protest the single internet gateway plan.</p> <p>At around 6 pm on Wednesday, 30 September 2015,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.mict.co.th/">www.mict.co.th</a>, the official website of the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (MICT), went down after it was attacked by internet users who are against the Thai authorities’ proposal to eliminate multiple internet gateways.</p>

<p>A civil society group has pointed out that the Thai authorities’ policy to provide financial support for the education of only children of Thai nationals is a violation of children's rights. &nbsp; &nbsp;</p>

<p>Prosecutors have indicted eight anti-election protesters for barricading Bangkok’s election venues during advanced voting in the election in early 2014.</p> <p>At the Criminal Court on Ratchadaphisek Road, Bangkok, at 11 am on Monday, 28 September 2015, prosecutors indicted Tinnakorn Plodpai, 35, one of the leaders of the People’s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC), an anti-election mob, for barricading the election venue in Bang Kapi District of Bangkok on 26 January 2014.</p>

<p>A pro-coup Buddhist monk known for leading anti-election mobs prior to the 2014 coup d’état has urged the US and Human Rights Watch, a human rights civil society group, not to touch Thailand’s lèse majesté law or intervene in its domestic affairs. &nbsp;</p>

<p>The military and criminal courts have disagreed about the jurisdiction over the case of a well-known embattled anti-junta politician charged with sedition and defying the junta’s order.</p>