<div>The military surrounded a village in southern Thailand and told landless villagers to leave a disputed area while threatening a villager not to take pictures of the event.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>According to Protection International (PI), at about 5:30 pm on Tuesday five military men came to Phoemsap Community of Chai Buri District in the southern province of Surat Thani and ordered the landless villagers to leave the area.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The military also reportedly threatened a villager with arrest and interrogation at a military camp if he took pictures of the military </div>

<p><a href="http://www.khaosodenglish.com/">Khaosod English:</a> An editor for the ultra-royalist Thai newspaper ASTV Manager was summoned by police today for overseeing the publication of a fake palace statement on the newspaper’s website last night.</p>

<div> <div>Four leading civil society organizations on Tuesday submitted an open letter to the junta-appointed parliament to hear more opinions from the people on the controversial digital economy bills.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The four are the Foundation for Internet and Civic Culture (FICC) aka the Thai Netizen Network (TNN), the Institution for the Development of Citizen Media, Green World Foundation, and the Foundation for the Blind in Thailand. </div></div>

<div> <div>Police have arrested a relative of a former high ranking police officer who was earlier sentenced to 12 years in jail for lèse majesté and misconduct.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The police arrested Eakachai P. on Tuesday and accused him of claiming connections with the monarchy in offering to help a suspect in a drug case get out of jail.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Bantoeng Nameesean filed a police complaint on Monday. </div></div>

<div> <p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-57e30a6c-4d52-1a5e-6166-b645d04a71f1">More than 20,000 people have signed a petition urging the junta not to pass a set of digital economy bills which will give the state unprecedented powers of mass surveillance and control over communications in the name of national security. Meanwhile, military officers interrupted a seminar on the bill, admitting that the bill is aimed at controlling people’s thoughts.&nbsp;</span></p> </div>

<p>The military summoned a southern land rights activist for three days of detention after he led a group of local farmers to fight for their land rights.</p> <p>The military on Sunday issued a letter summoning Peerat Bunrit, one of the leaders of Southern Peasants' Federation of Thailand (SPFT) from Chai Buri District of Surat Thani Province in southern Thailand, to a so-called ‘attitude adjustment camp’ for three days.</p>

<p>Thai police arrested six people as part of a “criminal organization” for distributing online materials allegedly defaming the monarchy. &nbsp;</p> <p>Pol Lt Gen Prawut Thavornsiri, spokesperson of the Royal Thai Police, held a press briefing on Monday on the arrests of six lèse majesté suspects: Damrong S., Siwaporn P., Ngernkoon U., Paisit J., Anchan P., and Tara W.</p>

<p>The Thai authorities summoned the US Chargé d'Affaires for talks over visits by US Embassy staff to red shirt leaders and ex-Pheu Thai politicians in the Northeast, noting that the visits might have a political effect and be inappropriate. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p id="E23" qowt-divtype="para" qowt-eid="E23" style="list-style-type:none;"><span id="E24" qowt-eid="E24">The junta’s </span><span id="E26" qowt-eid="E26">constiutional</span><span id="E28" qowt-eid="E28"> drafters revealed a</span><span id="E29" qowt-eid="E29"> controversial plan to combine </span><span id="E30" qowt-eid="E30">the&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.nhrc.or.th/en/" id="E31" qowt-divtype="qowt-field-hyperlink" qowt-eid="E31" target="_blank"><span id="E32" qowt-eid="E32">National Human Rights Commission (NHRC</span></a><span id="E33" qowt-eid="E33">) with the Office</span> <span i</p> </span></p>

<div> <p>Prachatai on Friday celebrated, under martial law, its 10th anniversary as a non-profit alternative online media in Thailand.&nbsp;</p> <p>About 60 guests joined the event to celebrate its 10th anniversary on Friday night.&nbsp;</p> <p>The event was by invitation only and kept secret until Friday night for fear that the junta’s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) would force the cancellation of the event.&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8629/16378606136_d51f788afa_z.jpg" style="width: 640px; height: 426px;" /></p> </div>

<p>The Criminal Court sentenced two high ranking policemen charged with lèse majesté and misconduct to 12 years in prison.</p> <p>The Criminal Court on Friday afternoon sentenced Pol Lt Gen Pongpat C., ex-Commander of the Central Investigation Bureau, and Pol Maj Gen Kowit R., former Deputy Commander of the Central Investigation Bureau, to 12 years in prison in total under three offences. &nbsp;</p>

<p><a href="http://www.khaosodenglish.com/index.php">Khaosod English</a>: Two red-shirt leaders have been released following "attitude adjustment" sessions with the military.</p> <p>Nattawut Saikua, former Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Cooperative, and Chertchai Tantisirin, former Pheu Thai MP in Khon Kaen province, were summoned by the military after they publicly criticized the junta and recent political developments in Thailand. Both Nattawut and Chertchai are also core members of the Redshirt umbrella organization, the United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD).</p>