<p>The latest in-depth investigation into the Thai public health system shows much higher figures for maternal deaths and infant mortality than previously documented, revealing inequality in public health services despite the universal healthcare system.</p> <p>On Tuesday afternoon, 25 August 2015, the&nbsp;<a href="http://tdri.or.th/en/">Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI)</a>, a Thai public policy think tank, held a press briefing on a report of Thailand’s public health policies.</p>

<p dir="ltr">Prosecutors pressed another charge against one of the suspects of ‘Men in Black’, who were allegedly involved in violence during the military crackdown on red shirts on 10 April 2010.</p>

<p>The Thai criminal court has accepted another defamation case against Andy hall, a well-known advocate for migrant worker rights, who is accused of defaming a canned fruit company.</p> <p>On Monday morning, 24 July 2015, Bangkok’s Southern Criminal Court accepted a criminal defamation case against Andy Hall, a well-known human rights defender who advocates migrant worker rights, who is also accused of offenses under&nbsp;<a href="http://www.prachatai.com/english/node/117">Article 14 of the 2007 Computer Crime Act</a>.</p>

<p>Websites of at least three Thai state agencies have been hacked by a group believed to be from Tunisia, who claim to be acting for Muslim people in Myanmar.</p>

<p>The court in the restive southern Thailand ordered a security unit to provide compensation for the family of the Deep South violence victim who was tortured to death, but none of the security officers and public agencies were prosecuted.</p> <p>On Friday morning, 21 August 2015, the Administrative Court of the southern province of Songkhla ordered the security agency in the restive Deep South responsible for torturing Ashari Samaae to death to compensate the victim’s family with 534, 301.36 baht fund and 479,500 baht of accumulative interest.</p>

<p>A Thai military officer has filed a lèse majesté complaint against Sulak Sivaraksa, a renowned royalist and political science scholar known for his firm stand against the lèse majesté law, for allegedly criticising Thai monarchs of the early 20th century, King Rama V and Rama VII. &nbsp;</p>

<p>The people of Thailand’s northeast, or Isan, continue to suffer from the Thai junta’s forest protection policies despite the authorities’ confirmation that there would be no evictions from protected areas for the time being. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p>Thai police have arrested two lèse majesté suspects accused of making false claims about the monarchy for financial gain.</p> <p>According to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.khaosod.co.th/view_newsonline.php?newsid=1440127416">Khaosod News</a>, Pol Col Pairoj Rojjanakhajorn, Director of&nbsp;Section 2 of the Crime Suppression Division (CSD) and Pol Lt Col Torsak Panklinput, at 4 pm on Thursday, 20 August 2015, held a press briefing on the arrest of Kittiphop S., 23, and Wiset P., 30, after the provincial court in northern Kamphaeng Phet Province issued arrest warrants for the two.</p>

<p>A man accused of lèse majesté for making false claims about the King’s property has been sent to a psychiatric hospital after three months of pre-charge detention. &nbsp;</p>

<p>Thai lawmakers have decided not to appoint an ultra-royalist to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) due to his tainted financial records.</p> <p>On Thursday, 20 August 2015, the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) voted to approve five of the seven candidates to the NHRC. The five approved candidates are Angkana Neelapaijit, Chatsuda Chandeeying, Surachet Sathitniramai, Wat Tingsamit, and Prakairat Tontheerawong.</p>

<div> <p>An anti-dam committee in Northern Thailand has submitted complaints over the provincial governor’s secret meetings to construct controversial dams in the area.</p> <p>Villagers in Sa-iap Subdistrict, Song District, Phrae Province in northern Thailand are outraged at the revelation that the governor has been pushing for dam construction on the Yom River.</p> </div>

<p>The military officers in northern Thailand have attempted to prevent a group of villagers from submitting a complaint to the provincial governor, saying that the act might breach the Public Assembly Act recently enacted. &nbsp;</p>