<div> <div>Police on Tuesday detained a red-shirt activist and an expatriate for selling and buying campaign t-shirts to help Thai political prisoners.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The police detained Anurak Jentawanit aka “Ford Red Route” and Franz Borbath, a red-shirt supporter from Austrai living in northeastern Mukdahan Province, at Ratchaprasong intersection for possession of t-shirts with a quotation of a poem by William Ernest Henley called Invictus. </div></div>

<p>An anti-junta group plans to file charges against the Thai junta leader and his associates for instigating rebellion to topple the constitution. &nbsp;</p>

<p>The Thai military ordered the cancellation of public speeches by anti-military figures at an event to commemorate the democratic uprising of May 1992. &nbsp; &nbsp;</p> <p>According to Sripai Nontri, assistant manager of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/heroesofdemocracy">Heroes of Democracy Foundation</a>, a group of military officers on Saturday came to the Foundation’s office in Pak Kret District of Nonthaburi Province, north of Bangkok, at around 1 pm and ordered the foundation staff to cut planned speeches by pro-democracy speakers.</p>

<p>The Thai military claimed the authority under Section 44 of the Interim Constitution to arrest villagers in eastern Thailand who refused to leave an area which the Thai Navy wants to use as a practice ground. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<div>Thailand’s Foreign Ministry has sent a delegation to the North Korea and presented a gift to North Korea Leader Kim Jong Un to celebrate 40 years of bilateral ties.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>According to the<a href="http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2015/201505/news13/20150513-28ee.html"> Korean Central News Agency of DPRK</a>, the delegates, led by Deputy Minister Don Pramudwinai, arrived Pyongyang Tuesday and was welcomed with a reception, hosted by Democratic People's Republic of Korea Foreign Minister Ri Su Yong and Vice-Minister Ri Kil So at the Mansudae Assembly Hall.&nbsp;</div> <p><di</p> </di</p></p>

<p>LGBT activists from all walks of life point out that discrimination against LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) is still prevalent in Thailand although the Asian country promotes itself as a paradise for all sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions (SOGIE).</p>

<div>The criminal court on Thursday sentenced a man to five years in jail for lèse majesté based on claims about the former royal consort in a land encroachment case. </div>

<div> <p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-31b7ac1f-5184-f630-0439-480a76b17513">The Israeli Ambassador to Thailand on Thursday harshly criticized Rungkun Ktiyakara, who shares Queen Sirikit’s former family name, for his anti-Semitic Facebook statement which denied the holocaust.</span></p> </div>

<p>Thai villagers from seven provinces came together to petition the authorities to resist mining activities, demanding an investigation into health impacts allegedly resulting from mining.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1431500625">Khaosod English</a>: Police have arrested a 63-year-old man who decorated his pick-up truck with dozens of wooden signs criticizing bureaucrats and calling on officials to follow "His Majesty the King's teachings."&nbsp;</p>

<div>The criminal court in northern Chiang Rai Province on Tuesday started a trial against three red shirts for hanging a cloth banner allegedly calling for a northern rising up against Bangkok.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>According to Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR), the three defendants, who prefer to identify themselves only as Ood, Tanomsi and Suksayam, denied all allegations and have been released on 120,000 baht bail each.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>They were charged under Article 116 of the Criminal Code which carries a jail term of up to seven years for instigating upri </div>

<div><a href="http://www.khaosodenglish.com/index.php">Khaosod English</a>: Thai officials say they have uncovered yet another abandoned camp used by human smugglers to detain Rohingya refugees near the Malaysian border, the largest of five sites found in a sweep that started at the beginning of the month.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>According to police, the jungle camp is located three kilometers away from the first site found by security officers in Songkhla province on 1 May. </div>