<p>Seven student activists in Thailand’s Northeast, Isan Region, refused to appear at a police station on Monday while activist groups from many regions of the nation marched to show their moral support.</p> <p>On 8 June, seven student activists of Dao Din, a student activist group based in Khon Kaen University who were summoned by the police, refused to report to the police in the northeastern province of Khon Kaen.</p> <p>They hoped that their ‘civil resistance movement’ could inspire other activists and people to show solidarity against the military regime.</p>

<p>A military court in northern Thailand on Monday held a witness examination hearing in a lèse majesté case involving a man with a record of mental illness.</p>

<div> <div>UN special rapporteurs have sent a letter to the Thai government, expressing grave concerns over the use of Article 112 or the lèse majesté law.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The letter, sent to the Thai government on 8 December 2014, named 21 suspects or defendants or convicts under the lèse majesté law and Article 14 of the Computer Crime Act.&nbsp;</div> </div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The 21 are:</div> <ol> <li>Khantawut B,&nbsp;</li> <li><a href="http://prachatai.org/english/node/4872">Tanat Thanawatcharanon, aka Tom Dundee,</a></li> <li><a href="http://prachatai.org/english/node/4696">Sira<br /> </a></li></ol>

<div>In an attempt to ‘cleanse’ the streets of Bangkok, police have arrested more than 100 sex workers in four neighbourhoods.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Pol Lt Gen Sriwara Ransibrahmanakul said at a press briefing on Friday that 104 people had been arrested and accused of soliciting people to buy sex, which disturbed local residents and pedestrians.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The 104 people arrested were caught in four areas;</div> <ul> <li>35 in Wongwian 22 and Hua Lamphong</li> <li>22 between Khlong Lod and Sanam Luang</li> <li>25 at Makkasan train station, Wongwian Yai, Siam, and Rama II road&lt;<br /> </li></ul>

<p>The junta has responded to criticism by Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) that freedoms of expression and assembly were denied, after the police forced cancellation of a TLHR talk on human rights.</p> <p>On Friday 5 June, Col Winthai Suwaree, spokesperson of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), said that the TLHR did not cooperate with the NCPO in the first place. If the NCPO had considered the report to make sure that its content is truthful and did not incite conflict, then the event could have been held, Winthai said. &nbsp;</p>

<p>State officials have postponed a promise to open the gates of a controversial dam in Thailand’s northeast, saying that the area might experience drought. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d84bbf33-c292-123d-1de0-e2afc749693a">At least four student activists who last week were detained for an <a href="http://prachatai.org/english/node/5094">attempt to commemorate</a> the first anniversary of the military coup were summoned to hear charges for violating the junta’s order.</span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d84bbf33-c292-123d-1de0-e2afc749693a">The police accused the student activists of violating the junta’s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) which prohibits an assembly of more than five people. </span></p>

<p>The orders issued by the Thai coup-makers since the 2014 coup d’état will still be effective after national elections unless the newly elected administration successfully amends them. &nbsp; &nbsp;</p> <p>According&nbsp;<a href="http://news.voicetv.co.th/thailand/214298.html">Voice TV 21 News</a>, Visanu Krue-ngam, Deputy Prime Minister under Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, the junta leader and Prime Minister, announced on Thursday that the orders of the junta’s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) will not be terminated after the junta steps down in favour of an elected administration.</p>

<p>An international think tank has downgraded Thailand’s rule of law ranking after the military assumed power in the 2014 coup.</p> <p><a href="http://data.worldjusticeproject.org/#groups/THA">World Justice Project</a>&nbsp;(WJP), an international non-profit organization which conducts research on governance and rule of law worldwide, presented its annual findings showing that Thailand’s fundamental rights are spiralling downwards.</p>

<p>The military court granted bail to four activists of the anti-coup&nbsp;<a href="http://www.prachatai.org/english/category/resistant-citizen">Resistant Citizen&nbsp;</a>group after they were charged with defying the junta’s order.</p>

<p>A student organisation in the restive deep south of Thailand has called on the Thai junta to respect the civil and political rights of people in the region and pointed out that human rights have deteriorated under the junta’s rule. &nbsp;</p>

<p><strong><em>Update</em></strong><em>: The FCCT has announced that the scheduled event for Thursday tonight, the launch of the Thai Lawyers for Human Rights report on the human rights situation after the coup, has been cancelled on the orders of the NCPO and the police. However, TLHR will still hold a press briefing to clarify why the event was cancelled at 6 pm at the FCCT. &nbsp; &nbsp;</em></p> <p>Thai police have pressured the organizers of an event on human rights to cancel it while the organizers remain adamant on going ahead with the original plan.&nbsp;</p>