<p>Thai police summoned a human rights activist for interrogation over an academic seminar involving discussion of the Thai monarchy. &nbsp;</p> <p>On Wednesday, 1 July 2015, Prateep Ungsongtham Hata, a human rights activist known for her work with slum dwellers in Bangkok, told media that police officers from Pak Khlong Rangsit Police Station in Pathum Thani Province had summoned her for questioning over a seminar entitled ‘83 Years of Thailand’s Development after the 1932 Revolution of Siam’.</p>

<p>LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – On Monday morning, employees of the Royal Thai Consulate-General of Los Angeles and nearby pedestrians were greeted by protesters standing in support of the 14 students who were arrested in Bangkok on June 26.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="http://isaanrecord.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/IMG_27321-1024x683.jpg" style="text-align: center; width: 640px; height: 427px;" /></p>

<p dir="ltr">Young activists entered a cage installed in front of Thammasat University to support the 14 anti-junta activists</p> <p>The students activists from the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lltd.tu">League of Liberal Thammasat for Democracy (LLTD)</a> on Wednesday, 1 July 2015, placed a cage as a replica of prison cells on the pavement in front of the wall of Thammasat University, Tha Prachan Campus, in Bangkok.</p>

<p>The Thai Public Broadcasting Service (Thai PBS), a public media outlet supported by the state, might face a 50,000 baht fine from the Thai authorities for broadcasting a programme on the background of the 14 embattled anti-junta student activists.</p>

<p>A Facebook page of pro-junta students has urged the 14 anti-junta student activists to cease all political movements, claiming that they are selfish and destroying the nation. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<div>A red-shirt suspect in the March Criminal Court bombing has condemned the police’s dismissal of his torture allegations as “unfair and unlawful.”&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Sansern Sriounruen, a red-shirt accused of involvement in the 7 March Criminal Court bombing, was captured and held in military detention under martial law in early March. </div>

<p>Energy experts, state officials and entrepreneurs in southern Thailand have called on the Thai authorities to scrap a plan to build a coal-fired power plant in the region, saying that the lucrative tourism industry could suffer in the long run.</p>

<div>A group of almost 300 academics denounced the junta’s arrest of 14 anti-junta activists, mostly university students, as “barbaric.”</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The Network of Academics Concerned about Arrested Students, consisting of educators from all across Thailand, declared in a statement released Tuesday, June 30, that “only a tyrant would react using brute force and enforcement of barbaric laws on students using their citizens’ rights to call for reinstatement of internationally-held values and governance.”</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The statement praises the activists’ pro-democracy </div>

<p>The UN rights agency and the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand (NHRC) have pointed out that an increasing use of DNA tests to combat the Deep South insurgency may constitute racial discrimination against Muslims.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1435584252&amp;typecate=06&amp;section=">Khaosod English</a>: Three people have reportedly been arrested for their suspected connection to a brief pro-democracy demonstration in front of the United States Consulate in northern Thailand today.&nbsp;</p> <p>Around ten masked activists gathered in front of the US Consulate in Chiang Mai province this afternoon and held signs pledging their support for human rights, democracy, and non-violence.&nbsp;</p>

<p>A Thai military court sent an anti-junta transgender student activist to a male prison before releasing her, despite an LGBT group’s concerns over sexual harassment that she might face. &nbsp;</p>

<p>Human rights lawyers condemned the Thai police for the hasty arrests of 14 embattled student activists and the unlawful collection of the activists’ mobile phones.</p> <p>Yaowalak Anuphan, head of Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR), said at a press conference on Sunday, 28 June, at Thammasat University, that the arrests on Friday were hasty and unprofessional.</p> <p>The 14 activists, mostly students, were arrested for political gatherings on 22 May, the first anniversary of the 2014 coup d’état, in Bangkok and the northeastern province of Khon Kaen.</p>