<div> <div>The problematic Facebook post which led to the Army in northern Thailand filing a lèse majesté complaint is about the King’s favourite dog Tongdaeng.</div> <div> </div></div>

<div> <p>The junta has invited student organizations from leading universities nationwide to voice opinions in a national reform forum while ironically continuing to abuse its power under martial law to intimidate and monitor student activists.</p> <p>According to the League of Liberal Thammasat for Democracy, an anti-coup student group based at Thammasat University, the junta has sent invitations to the rectors of several leading universities to invite student councils to join a national reform forum.</p> </div>

<p>The Thai junta is trying hard to press other countries to extradite political exiles for allegedly defaming the revered Thai monarchy, saying that they should think twice about their long term relations with Thailand, after claiming that the exiles caused the biggest single day loss on the Thai stock market.</p>

<div> <p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-280adf7f-6043-d4b8-c0b3-e1460efb4073">An Army unit in northern Thailand filed a police complaint, accusing a businessman of defaming the King on Facebook.&nbsp;</span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-280adf7f-6043-d4b8-c0b3-e1460efb4073">The Chiang Rai Army’s Peace and Order Maintenance Command sent a representative to file the complaint at Chiang Rai Police Station on Tuesday, according to&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.manager.co.th/Local/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=9570000144856">ASTV-Manager Online</a>.&nbsp;</p> </div>

<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-989fc783-5c7a-e91a-7cc0-a37f984ee731">Community rights groups have urged the junta not to ignore community rights and to reconsider their forest protection policies after nearly 1,800 families, most of them in Thailand’s North and Northeast, have been severely affected.</span></p>

<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8b41dc3a-5c53-5663-2681-92ebc5e2c7dc">The cabinet gave the green light to the Royal Thai Police proposal to provide the Special Branch Police with the authority to carry out searches, arrests, and detention of suspects. Meanwhile, the police aim to amend the Criminal Procedure Code to allow all police units to be able to intercept private communications for better crime control.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p>An ex-lèse majesté suspect charged with disobeying a junta order pleaded guilty to failing to report to the junta in June, despite the fact that he had earlier been arrested by the junta.</p> <p>Nut S., an anti-coup activist accused of defying the coup order which summoned him to report to the coup-makers in June, pleaded guilty during the trial at the military court in Bangkok on Wednesday morning.</p>

<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-69d523d7-5b3b-591d-5e66-29480eb69a5b">Jom Petpradab, a self-exiled journalist, who was accused of spreading the rumour about the Thai King’s health which caused the Thai stock market to plunge, revealed that the rumour may have come from his report citing an anonymous source in the palace.</span></p>

<p>The military ordered six rubber farmers to be detained in a military camp for ‘attitude adjustment’ after they campaigned for a rubber price subsidy.</p> <p>According to the&nbsp;<a href="http://m.posttoday.com/article/335918/4000">Post Today Online</a>, Maj Gen Kueakun Innachak, Surat Thani Army Chief, summoned Pairot Ruekdi, coordinator of the Rubber Farmers’ Federation of Bang Song Sub-district of Wiang Sa District in the southern province of Surat Thani, and five other leading members to report to a military camp on Tuesday.</p>

<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-086155de-5bb0-3cb1-93b1-f50fc22cdc6e">The Minister of Information and Communication Technology boasted that the Ministry has blocked around 1,200 alleged lèse majesté websites since the coup took place on 22 May, after the latest pressure from the junta.</span></p>

<div> <p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7ecce381-5600-15ad-d547-7ef61090ad66">Thai junta on Tuesday accused a Thai journalist living in self-exile of spreading rumours about the Thai King’s health, which caused the Stock Exchange of Thailand to plunge dramatically on Monday.&nbsp;</span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7ecce381-5600-15ad-d547-7ef61090ad66">Maj Gen Sansern Kaewkamnerd, Army and government spokesman, said the rumour about the King’s health was spread by Jom Petpradab, a veteran journalist now living in self-exile in the US. &nbsp;</span></p> </div>

<div>The Thai junta leader has ordered the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT) to deploy harsher measures on lèse majesté websites.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>According <a href="http://www.dailynews.co.th/Content/politics/287655/“ประยุทธ์”กระทุ้งไอซีทีจัดการเว็บหมิ่นสถาบัน">Daily News</a>,&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 12px;">Prayut Chan-o-cha, head of the Thai junta, urged the MICT during a high level meeting at the Government House on Monday morning to closely monitor lèse majesté websites and other websites that might affect public morale.</span></div> <div>&nbsp; </div>