<div>A red-shirt poet whose lèse majesté case is being tried by a military court has made the extraordinary decision to fight the case despite the dim chances of winning. </div>
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<div>On Wednesday, the military court scheduled the first witness hearing for 2 April. There are 10 witnesses in total. </div>
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<div>His case is being tried in camera at a military court after the court said his crimes--writing poems-- are severe since his poems touched on the revered Thai monarchy.
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<p>The Supreme Administrative Court is scheduled to rule on a case brought against the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration and the BTS Skytrain who are accused of not providing equal access to transportation for physically challenged people. This is the first suit against state authorities in Thailand concerning people with physical challenges.</p>
<p>The criminal court postponed the preliminary hearing against a suspect charged with murder and carrying arms in public during a confrontation between the red shirts and anti-election protesters in February 2014.</p>
<p>Villagers from three provinces in the lower north of Thailand have urged the Thai authorities and a mining company to provide compensation and remedial measures after the authorities found heavy metals in the villagers’ blood. </p>
<p>The Thai police ordered a check into a lèse majesté case against a policewoman accused of defaming the monarchy on Facebook, after pressure from ultra-royalists who launched a campaign to bully the policewoman, Thai media reported.</p>
<p>Northeastern NGOs have urged the junta to reconsider the implementation of the Return the Forest policies, stating that they have aggravated serious human rights violations against the poor while the rich are left untouched.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.khaosodenglish.com/">Khaosod English</a> : Two Thai men have been arrested for allegedly trafficking nearly 400 Rohingya into southern Thailand. </p>
<p>The leader of an ultra-royalist group has accused a left-leaning red-shirt political activist of defaming the monarchy and of rebellion against the Thai state. </p>
<p>Maj Gen Rientong Nan-nah, the leader of the ultra-royalist Rubbish Collection Organization (RCO), filed a lèse majesté complaint against Surachai D. (aka. Surachai Sae Dan), an anti-establishment red-shirt figure, at the police’s Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD) on Tuesday.</p>
<p>Six civil organizations denounced the eight Digital Economy bills recently approved by the junta, saying they are national security bills in disguise and that the bill will pave the way for a state monopoly of the telecommunication business.</p>
<div>Thai constitutional drafters, under the military regime, is including regulations on ‘hate speech’ in the new constitutional draft for the first time in Thai law.</div>
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<div>Kamnoon Sidhisaman, the spokesperson of the Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC), announced the results of the CDC meeting on freedom of expression that on top of mentioning vaguely that freedom of expression is guaranteed with the limitations of respect towards the rights of others, the committee has included ‘hate speech’ into the new draft constitution. </div>
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<p dir="ltr">The authorities arrested a man for posting lese majeste on Facebook and said he was part of a movement to discredit the Thai monarchy on the Internet.</p>
<p>The police from <a href="http://www.tcsd.in.th/site/index">Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD)</a> on Wednesday held a press conference on the arrest Jamroen S., a middle age man accused of using the facebook profile titled <a href="https://www.facebook.com/uncha.unyo">‘Uncha Unyo</a>’ to post and share lese majeste contents.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8f27d0e6-e683-9158-0bc6-428ab77f92a2">After being attacked by Thai ultra-royalists who who resented the UNHCR for the alleged role in givingถ a lese majeste suspect refugee status, the Thailand’s branch of UNHCR closed down its facebook fan page.</span></p>