<p>Thai military has dismissed the UN’s expression of concern and suggestion that Thai authorities should uphold human rights while solving land conflicts, saying that the information which claims that the military harassed villagers is false. </p>
<div>Thailand’s law reform agency urged the Thai junta not to restrict media freedom and freedom of expression in the new constitution.</div>
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<p>The military court has granted bail to a man who was accused of distributing anti-junta pamphlets.</p>
<p>According to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lawyercenter2014/photos/a.668860109830513.1073741828.668420999874424/809926952390494/?type=1&fref=nf">Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR)</a>, the military court in the eastern province of Chonburi on Monday granted 70,000 baht (2,151 USD) bail to Ponlawat Warodomputhikul, a 22-year-old factory worker from Mueang District of eastern Rayong Province.</p>
<p>The criminal court on Tuesday postponed for a second time the preliminary hearing against a suspect known as the "popcorn gunman", accused of shooting at red shirt protesters during a confrontation between the red shirts and anti-election protesters in February 2014.</p>
<p>According to Matichon Online, Bangkok’s Criminal Court on Tuesday morning granted the prosecutor’s request to postpone the preliminary hearing against Wiwat Yodprasit, the 24-year-old suspect indicted for attempted murder and carrying weapons during the political unrest at Laksi, northern Bangkok, on 2 February 2014.</p>
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<div>The military court sentenced a red-shirt businessman accused of posting content defaming the monarchy on Facebook to 50 years imprisonment, in a trial held in camera, but the jail term was halved because the suspect pleaded guilty. </div>
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<div>The man, who wants to remain anonymous and whose given name begins with T and surname with S, was accused of using two Facebook accounts under the name “Yai Daengdueat”.
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<div>Bundit Aneeya, a 74 year-old writer charged with lèse majesté for the second time, has decided not to plead guilty in the military court and to fight the case.
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<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f081db3-6e13-8e8e-0386-583be20c52b7">Thailand’s northeasterners and a northern ethnic minority group who have been affected by the junta’s forest protection policies urged national human rights agencies to take action in cancelling the junta’s policies and allowing more public participation in forest management.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-38694e5c-6e15-12eb-2a2a-714f19558bbc">A Thai national media association urged the head of the military junta to understand the role of the media and not to act as a dictator when confronted with unpleasant news reports. </span></p>
<p>The military court has again postponed the trial of a suspect charged with defying an order of the junta in 2014 due to the repeated absence of the first prosecution witness. </p>
<p>The military court on Friday morning postponed examination of a prosecution witness in a case where Sirapop (family name withheld due to privacy concerns) was charged with defying the junta’s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) Announcement No. 41/2014 for not reporting to the coup-maker in May 2014.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-abfc5ffe-5953-f331-937e-9786f4e827f5">Internal security officers in northeastern Thailand have filed a lawsuit against a man who allegedly posted a picture on Facebook of the officers trying to evict villagers. </span></p>
<p>In a bid to stop the political activities of student activists, military officers have intimidated 17 student activists by paying visits to their homes, dorms, and parent’s homes.</p>
<p>The Thai Student Centre for Democracy (TSCD), a student activist group, on Wednesday revealed on the group’s <a href="https://www.facebook.com/thaiscdcom/photos/a.361402257353247.1073741828.361287087364764/452079884952150/?type=1">Facebook page</a> that since 19 March, 17 student activists have been intimidated by military officers who came to visit their homes.</p>
<p>The military court granted bail to one of the four embattled anti-junta activists from <a href="http://www.prachatai.org/english/category/resistant-citizen">Resistant Citizen</a>, a pro-democracy activist group.</p>
<p>At around 2.20 pm on Thursday, Bangkok’s military court granted 70,000 baht (2,150 USD) bail to Pansak Srithep, a pro-democracy activist and father of a boy killed by the military during the 2010 political violence.</p>
<p>At press time, media and supporters of Pansak were waiting for Bangkok Remand Prison officers to release Pansak.</p>