<p>The Thai authorities have admitted that they blocked websites and Facebook pages of the anti-establishment red shirts to prevent them from broadcasting the anti-junta protest at the UN.</p>

<p>Villagers in southern Thailand have protested against the military’s proposal to turn parts of a wetland into a battle practice ground. &nbsp;</p> <p>According to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thairath.co.th/content/527064">Thairath News</a>, about 100 villagers in Khlong Thom Tai Subdistrict, Khlong Thom District, of the southern province of Krabi at 11 am on Thursday, 24 September 2015, gathered at a wetland in the district, which they have been using as pasture and farmland, to protest the military’s plan to turn the area into a combat practice area.</p>

<p>Thailand’s telecommunication authorities have admitted that a plan to reduce the number of internet gateways down to one is for ‘national security’, but added that it will also boost the country’s IT capacity to compete with other nations.</p>

<p>The military and criminal courts for the first time have disagreed over which court should have the jurisdiction to try a lèse majesté suspect.</p> <p>The Criminal Court on Ratchadaphisek Road, Bangkok, on Tuesday, 22 September 2015, ruled that it has jurisdiction over the case of 52-year-old Sirapop (surname withheld due to privacy concerns), suspected of offenses under Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lèse majesté law.</p>

<p dir="ltr">Conservative Buddhist organisations in Thailand calls on the authorities to review a horror movie about a young novice, saying that the film insults Buddhism and Buddhist monks.</p>

<p dir="ltr">The cabinet under the junta has ordered relevant agencies to speed up the process to reduce multiple internet gateways to a single one in order to increase the efficiency of the state’s surveillance system. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>The cabinet under Gen Prayuth Chan-o-cha, the junta leader and Prime Minister, last month has given a green light to the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT) and relevant agencies to push ahead with the process to implement a single gateway internet system before the end of the 2015 fiscal budget.</p>

<p>The Thai junta leader has urged the relevant authorities to speed up a special economic zone project in northern Thailand despite opposition from local people who are to be evicted.</p> <p>On 18 September 2015,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.prachachat.net/news_detail.php?newsid=1442392815">Prachachat News</a>&nbsp;reported that Suttha Saiwanit, Deputy Governor the northern border province of Tak, revealed that Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, the junta leader and Prime Minister, has ordered him to speed up plans to construct a special economic zone (SEZ) in Tha Sai Luat Subdistrict, Mae Sot District.</p>

<div> <div>Anti-coup activists on Saturday commemorated the 2006 military coup, arguably the event which triggered Thailand’s polarized political conflict, amid tight security in central Bangkok. &nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On 19 September 2006, Gen Sonthi Boonyaratglin, then Army Commander, staged a military coup d’état to topple then Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, reasoning that Thaksin was allegedly involved in corruption and nepotism, interfered in independent state agencies and insulted the King. </div></div>

<div>An ex-lèse majesté&nbsp;convict was found guilty by the Appeal Court for failing to answer a junta summons after months of intimidation from the military.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/781/21294917788_6811b64766_z.jpg" style="width: 480px; height: 640px;" /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#ff8c00;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Nat brings shorts, flip flops, and a toothbrush in a plastic bag to the court because he expected to be put behind bars again.</span></span></div> <div>&nbsp; </div>

<p dir="ltr">Military officers in Isan, Thailand’s Northeast, intimidated academics and students on environmental research in areas with potash mining planned. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>Three military officers from 24th Army Region base in Udon Thani Province on Wednesday morning, 16 September 2015, came to Huai Sampad Sub-district, Prajaksilapakom District, of the province to monitor activities of academics and students while they were in the field research on local environment and public health.</p>

<p dir="ltr">The Thai junta ordered removal of an aerial of a local anti-establishment red shirt radio station in Isan, Thailand's Northeast.</p>

<div>Pravit Rojanaphruk, The Nation senior reporter and fierce critic of the junta, said on Wednesday he quited his job at The Nation newspaper due to pressure upon the paper after he was detained incommunicado by the military.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>According to Pravit, The Nation Group forced him to resign due to pressure from its readers.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>“I love The Nation. I don’t want to see it jeopardized. </div>