<div>The Thai authorities have revealed that they have invited representatives of Facebook in Thailand to discuss measures to prevent content defaming the Thai King on Facebook and how to have them prosecuted.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Thakorn Tantasith, Secretary-General of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC), told reporters on Sunday that NBTC has invited the Thailand representatives of the social network company to a talk on Monday.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Thakorn said he wants Facebook head office to respect Thailand’s Article 112, or the lèse majesté law </div>

<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-98c232f0-93c1-f1c7-3880-b4d971c4f930">Google did not comply with any of the Thai authorities’ requests to remove YouTube videos deemed insulting to the Thai monarchy, or to reveal user data, according to the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/">latest Google Transparency Report</a>, which is based on data from July to December 2013.</p>

<p>The Thai authorities forced a halt to an environmental rally to study the river ecosystem in Isan, Thailand’s northeast, claiming that it was illegal under martial law.</p> <p>More than ten military and police officers and civil servants stormed into Thammawiwek Temple in Mueang District of the northeastern province of Yasothon on Thursday morning and forced the environmental rally to be cancelled.</p>

<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fc96c6da-847b-9784-8f42-5f360435674c">Thai police have arrested a businessman for posting lèse majesté messages on his Facebook account.</span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fc96c6da-847b-9784-8f42-5f360435674c">The man, whose given name begins with T and surname with S, was accused of using two Facebook accounts under &nbsp;“Yai Daengdueat” (</span>ใหญ่ แดงเดือด) to post three messages deemed to defame the King, according to the police custody petition submitted to the military court on Thursday. &nbsp;</p>

<p class="p1">The Junta leader has accused some of the media of inciting conflict and attacking him personally and threatens to use martial law to shut them down.</p> <p class="p2">According to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.matichon.co.th/news_detail.php?newsid=1419480018"><span class="s1">Matichon Online</span></a>, Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, prime minister and the head of the junta’s National Council of Peace and Order (NCPO), said he can stand public criticism as a public figure, but not personal attacks against him. He then urged the media to respect his privacy and his human dignity.</p>

<div> <div>Thai police summoned a Thammasat University history lecturer and two student activists to testify on the lèse majesté accusation against the renowned royalist and lèse majesté law critic Sulak Sivaraksa in relation to Sulak’s speech on an ancient king, saying the use of lèse majesté in Thailand is an obstacle to Thai history lessons.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Phiphat Krachaechan, a history lecturer at Thammasat University, on Wednesday revealed to Prachatai that he had refused to cooperate with the police in testifying on the lèse majesté complaint against Sulak after the police sum </div></div>

<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ac8a56d1-7c02-3ee6-0ad5-4615bf63fa79">Thailand’s junta leader threw a banana peel at a cameraman’s head after getting annoyed at being asked to face the camera too many times.</span></p>

<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-df4a70bf-7f79-506c-8816-83c8678cb9e9">The Thai authorities have denied reports that they are intercepting a popular smartphone chat application to hunt down lèse majesté suspects.</span></p>

<div> <p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b3e97379-7ab4-2bb0-f753-e2061c933b44">The pro-establishment Democrat Party submitted lèse majesté and defamation complaints against a redshirt wearing black around the King’s birthday and pressed the authorities to take action against a Pheu Thai politician’s son accused of lèse majesté.</span></p> </div>

<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5faddcb9-7a3a-91d1-b301-3434a8659db7">The Thai authorities revealed that they can access all communications made by 33 million Thai users of the popular chat application, saying it specifically focuses on lèse majesté messages. &nbsp;</span></p> <p></p>

<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f3e28af-7187-f576-b35f-6d582b085b45">No anti-coup student activist participated in the junta’s national reform forum organized to collect students’ opinions on reform; they say that they do not want to be part of the apparatus of the military government. &nbsp;</span></p>

<p id="E67" qowt-divtype="para" qowt-eid="E67" style="list-style-type:none;"><span id="E68" qowt-eid="E68">12 civil society organisations based in Thailand’s Northeast ha</span><span id="E69" qowt-eid="E69">ve</span><span id="E70" qowt-eid="E70"> condemned the junta’s suppr</span><span id="E71" qowt-eid="E71">ession of freedom of expression</span><span id="E72" qowt-eid="E72">, stating that national reform is only </span><span id="E74" qowt-eid="E74">a</span> <span id="E76" qowt-eid="E76">pretence</span> <span id="E79" qowt-eid="E79">to enable</span><span id="E80" qowt-eid="E80"> the junta </span></p>