<p>Seven embattled student activists from Thailand’s Northeast met UN and British Embassy staff to discuss their legal struggle and the human rights situation under the military government. &nbsp;</p> <p>The seven are members of a renowned student activist group based in Khon Kaen University, the Dao Din Group, who have been charged with defying the junta’s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO)’s Order No. 7/2014, which prohibits a political gathering of more than five persons, for holding activity to commemorate the 2014 coup d’état on 22 May.</p>

<p>The Thai military summoned a lecturer at a university in Thailand’s Northeast, for questioning about his relationship with an anti-junta activist group in the region. &nbsp;</p> <p>On 12 June, military officers of the northeastern province of Maha Sarakham summoned Chainarong Sretthachau, a lecturer at Mahasarakham University, to ask about the lecturer’s affiliation with the Dao Din group, an anti-junta student activist group based in Khon Kaen University.</p> <p>Chainarong, however, informed the officers that he would like to postpone the meeting to 15 June.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1434363136&amp;typecate=06&amp;section=">Khaosod English</a>: Thailand's Foreign Correspondents' Club has cancelled a discussion on the Kingdom’s draconian lese majeste law after police delivered a verbal order from the ruling military junta.</p>

<p>Thai police have searched the house of a former high ranking palace official accused under the lèse majesté law, confiscating 10 million baht’s worth of cash and property. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>According to the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tnamcot.com/content/208777">Thai News Agency</a>, Pol Lt Gen Prawut Thavornsiri, spokesman of the Royal Thai Police, and investigating officers on Sunday carried out a search of the house of Montri S., a former palace official serving Srirasmi, the former royal consort to the Crown Prince. Montri is accused of citing the monarchy for personal gain.</p>

<p>The Thai military summoned four leaders of an activist group in Isan, Thailand’s northeast, for joining the blessing ceremony for an anti-junta student activist who staged an activity to commemorate the 2014 coup d’état last month. &nbsp;</p> <p>At 10.30 am on Friday, military officers in the northeastern province of Kalasin summoned four activists from the local <a href="https://www.facebook.com/namoondoonsard">Ban Na Mun-Dun Sat Environmental Protect</a><u>ion Group</u> for a talk.&nbsp;</p>

<p>More than 300 lawyers, NGO workers, journalists, state officials, academics, activists, and others from around the globe met to encourage efforts to end the principle of ‘an eye for an eye’ in justice systems by abolishing the use of capital punishment in Asia and elsewhere. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<div>Experts say the boat people crisis is a critical regional problem where responsibility is shared among the countries involved. </div>

<p dir="ltr">A high ranking palace officer accused of citing about the monarchy for personal gains.</p> <p>According to <a href="http://www.bangkokbiznews.com/news/detail/651081">Krungthepturakij News</a>, Pol Gen Somyos Pumpanmuang, the chief of the Royal Thai Police, on Wednesday morning held a press conference over an arrest warrant of Montri S., a high ranking officer of the Bureau of the Royal Household of Thailand, under Article 112 of the Criminal Code, aka. lese majeste law.</p>

<p>A military court in northern Thailand has held a deposition hearing in a lèse majesté case involving a mother of two in camera, citing public morals and stability.</p> <p>On Tuesday, the military court of the northern province of Chiang Mai held a deposition hearing in the case of Sasiwimol (surname withheld due to privacy concerns), a 29-year-old employee of a hotel in the province for allegedly posting six lèse majesté messages under the Facebook identity ‘Rungnapha Kampichai’.</p>

<p>The United Nations has released a&nbsp;<a href="https://spdb.ohchr.org/hrdb/29th/public_-_UA_Thailand_19.02.15_(2.2015).pdf">communication</a>&nbsp;to urge the Thai government to investigate the murders and harassment of land rights activists in southern Thailand.</p> <p>On 2 June, a Working Group of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) published a letter sent to the Thai government on 19 February, which expressed grave concerns over the murder, attempted murder, and detention of land rights activists.</p>

<p>Shan Community Based Organizations (CBOs) have issued a statement concerning plans to build the Upper Salween (Mong Ton) dam in Shan State, demanding cancellation of the dam.</p> <p>On 9 June at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand (FCCT) in central Bangkok, Sai Khur Hseng, the coordinator of the Shan Sapawa Environmental Organization, presented the statement to about twenty media agencies, stating that the Burmese authorities must stop their plans to build the Mong Ton dam, as well as all other dams on the Salween River.</p>

<p>A civil society organisation for poor communities in Thailand has rejected the jumta’s community forest bill, saying that landless communities will still suffer if the bill is enacted. &nbsp;</p>