<p>Thai junta ignored the UN inquiry into the torture allegations of Kritsuda Khunasen, a red-shirt political activist who was detained incommunicado for more than 20 days in June 2014. &nbsp;</p>

<p><a href="http://www.khaosodenglish.com/">Khaosod English</a>: Thailand's military leader has asked the media not to report on human trafficking without considering how the news will affect the country's seafood industry and reputation abroad.</p>

<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ad34ef6e-552f-a634-0d1e-d16cff8803e2">A civil society organisation for the poor rejected the junta’s subsidised state housing project, saying that the project is not compatible with the livelihoods of the urban poor. &nbsp;</span></p>

<p>The protracted political crisis that has rocked Thailand for the past decade is the result of "too much democracy," said Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha, the retired army chief who seized power from an elected government in a military coup last May, at the Convention for the Federation of Thai Industries in Bangkok on Monday.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p>The Criminal Court on Monday postponed for the third time the deposition hearing of the ‘Men in Black’ suspects, who were allegedly involved in violence during the military crackdown on red shirts on 10 April 2010, due to disagreement on the prosecution side on whether to file terrorism charges.</p> <p>The postponement is due to a disagreement between the public prosecutor and the Department of Special Investigation, who is overseeing the investigation of the case.</p>

<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cdd970bd-49da-310d-eb0d-943b2c14041a">The military court rejected the bail request of a criminal court bombing suspect who was allegedly tortured by the police under custody.</span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cdd970bd-49da-310d-eb0d-943b2c14041a">Bangkok’s military court on Monday denied a bail request submitted by Sansern Sriounruen, 54, one of the four criminal court bombing suspects who were reportedly&nbsp;tortured under military detention in early March. &nbsp;</span></p>

<div> <div>Amnesty International has called on its members around the world to send letters to the Thai authorities to voice concerns over the alleged torture of suspects in the Bangkok court bombing case.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The London-based organization called for the letters to be sent to the Thai Army Chief and the Thai Police Chief.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The International Secretariat of Amnesty International, based in London, issued the call on 20 March. It says two suspects, Surapon Eamsuwan and Wasu Eamla-au, were in danger of ill treatment and torture. </div></div>

<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9c61eabd-49dd-a804-7596-b8dec143bd1b">Thailand’s Ministry of Justice is now chasing 31 lèse majesté suspects who are currently living overseas in an attempt to extradite the suspects from the host countries and have them prosecuted in Thailand. &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>

<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-445d2a04-4645-5e98-087f-33e936067494">The Thai military forced labour unionists to remove pro-election stickers and placards at&nbsp;a monthly rally.</span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-445d2a04-4645-5e98-087f-33e936067494">Around six military officers on Saturday morning inspected cars which belong to Rangsit and Area Labour Union members at the rally in Pathum Thani Province, north of Bangkok, and ordered the union members to remove the A4 stickers which simply read ‘election’.</span></p>

<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-daa8ee26-463c-42c5-14f5-f66affe34ff4">The police arrested a lèse majesté suspect from northern Thailand and accused him of posting lèse majesté content on Facebook. He was accused of being part of the </span><a href="http://prachatai.org/english/node/4748">Banpodj Network</a>, an alleged criminal organisation, which produces online and other electronic content to discredit the junta and the monarchy.</p>

<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-18224a16-3adf-aa99-5c7f-32efdd562486">The military in northern Thailand have summoned a university lecturer and a rector over an anti-junta banner and warned that there should be no political activity on campus.</span></p>

<p>After Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the Thai authorities to investigate the alleged torture of the criminal court bombing suspects, a conservative Thai news website mocked the rights group with a satirical cartoon, suggesting that the military should let a militant group attack the HRW office. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>