<p>The military officers in northern Thailand have threatened to force the cancellation of a discussion about LGBT if it touches on political issues. &nbsp; &nbsp;</p> <p>According to <a href="http://www.prachatham.com/article_detail.php?id=312">Prachatham News</a>, military officers from 33rd Army Division of the northern province of Chiang Mai at 12:30 pm on Saturday, 4 July 2015, came to inspect an event called ‘Gender &amp; LGBTIQs in Modern Society’ at the Cultural Exhibition Hall of Chiang Mai University.</p>

<p>The 14 embattled anti-junta activists have requested postponement of pre-trial interrogation while one of the group says that she only exercised her rights as a citizen and refused to acknowledge the junta’s authority.</p>

<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8373f501-6248-a278-69a0-14fc1809573d">Crowds gathered in central Bangkok to show support for the 14 detained anti-junta activists amid a heavy presence of police and military officers in and out of uniform.</span></p>

<p dir="ltr">The 14 anti-junta activists detained stay adamant on their civil disobedience move and refuse to submit bail request to the military court, saying that the court has no jurisdiction on the case. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>Kritsadang Nujarad, a defence lawyer of 14 anti-junta activists under custody at 1 pm on Friday, 3 July 2015, told the press in front of Bangkok Remand Prison that none of the 14 anti-junta activists will request for bail.</p>

<div>Amnesty International and the National Human Rights Commission visited the 14 embattled anti-junta activists at Bangkok prisons on Thursday, while about a hundred people gathered to offer moral support to the jailed activists.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The activists, mostly students, protested against the junta and had been arrested for their nonviolent protests on 26 June.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On Thursday, two representatives from Amnesty International visited the activists and issued an urgent action to call for the activists’ release.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The arreste </div>

<p>Experts have urged structural reforms to counter the lack of efficiency of Thai state enterprises, suggesting that a centralised ownership agency of state enterprises with less state control could be a solution. &nbsp;</p> <p>On Tuesday, 30 June 2015, the Faculty of Economics of Thammasat University organized a public forum on “State-owned Enterprise Reform: Methods and Challenges” at Thammasat’s Tha Prachan Campus.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1435837870&amp;typecate=06&amp;section=">Khaosod English</a>: Pro-democracy activists in Thailand have accused soldiers of intimidating the family of Chonticha Chaengrew, one of fourteen anti-coup dissidents in jail for leading a peaceful demonstration against the military government.</p> <p>According to the activists' lawyer,&nbsp;Kritsadang Nutcharus, three soldiers arrived at Chonticha’s home yesterday and requested to talk to her mother.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The Thai authorities have put 13 of the 14 anti-junta activists into separate prison cells, a decision which the activists in detention have protested, saying that it has political implications.</p> <p>On Thursday, 2 June 2015, Bangkok Remand Prison separated the 13 male anti-junta activists in custody into groups of 2-3 and detained them in different compounds of the prison.</p>

<p>After being summoned by the Thai broadcasting authorities, Thai PBS, a public media company supported by the state, clarified that it was only doing its duty in broadcasting a TV programme about the 14 embattled anti-junta activists.</p>

<p>Thai lawmakers have scrapped an opportunity of marriage equality for all SOGIEs (sexual orientations and gender identifications and expressions) in Thailand in the draft constitution, saying that the nation is not ready.</p> <p>According to the&nbsp;<a href="http://forsogi.org/?p=290">Foundation for SOGI Rights and Justice (FOR SOGI)</a>, the Constitutional Drafting Committee (CDC) reached a consensus on 26 June 2015 to remove the phrase “rights to marriage” from Article 38 in Section 2, the section on citizens’ and human rights of the draft constitution.</p>

<div> <p>Thai authorities have visited the home of one of the 14 embattled anti-junta activists to ask about his recent activities. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>On Wednesday, 1 July 2015, a Facebook page of Dao Din Group, a student activist group based in the northeastern province of Khon Kaen, posted a video interview of Wiboon Boonpattararaksa, the father of Jatupat Boonpattararaksa, one of the 14 anti-junta student activists now in detention.</p> </div>

<p>Thai military officers in plainclothes have visited Prachatai’s office in Bangkok to ask about Prachatai’s activities.</p> <p>At around 11 am on Thursday, 2 July 2015, three military officers in plain clothes from the First Infantry Regiment of Bangkok came to the Prachatai office.</p> <p>The plain-clothes officers spent about 20 minutes discussing Prachatai’s recent activities. The officers, however, did not enter into the office.</p> <p>The officers also requested contact information for Prachatai personnel and took pictures of the office and surrounding area.</p>