<p>Southern villagers rallied at Nakhon Si Thammarat Administrative Court with the body of an anti-mine activist, who was assassinated on Sunday, after the court ruled in favour of the villagers to temporarily halt a mining operation.</p>
<p>According to Thairath Newspaper, hundreds of villagers from Krung Ching Subdistrict in the Southern province of Nakhon Si Thammarat on Wednesday morning rallied at the Administrative Court with the body of Pithan Thongpanang to continue to press the court to stop the mining operations in the district.</p>
<p>The police arrested two men for distributing anti-junta leaflets last week and charged them with instigating conflict and instability in the country.</p>
<p>According to Matichon online, Pol Maj Gen Sriwara Rangsiphramnakul, commander of the Metropolitan Police, held a press briefing on Tuesday about the arrests of Sithitat Laowanichtanapha, 54, and Wachira Thongsuk. The two men were accused of distributing fliers against the junta at the Victory Monument in central Bangkok in the early hours of 23 November.</p>
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<div>The Criminal Court has sentenced Sgt Prasit Chaisrisa, a former Pheu Thai MP and red-shirt figure, to five years in jail, but since the defendant pleaded guilty, the jail term was halved to two years and six months. </div>
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<div>The court ruled that Prasit defamed the King during a speech at an event titled “Stop Overthrowing Democracy,” held at the Imperial World Ladprao Department Store on 7 May 2014. </div>
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<div>The court reasoned that the jail term should not be suspended because the speech greatly damaged the beloved monarchical instituti
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<div><a href="http://www.nationmultimedia.com/politics/Thai-lawyers-centre-wins-award-from-French-embassy-30249058.html">The Nation</a> : The Thai Lawyers for Human Rights Centre, which offers assistance to people prosecuted by the military junta, thanked the French Embassy yesterday for a human rights prize to be awarded to them next week.</div>
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<div>Yaowalak Anuphan, chief of the centre, said she believed the honour sent a signal to both the human rights community in Thailand and the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) about the importance of civil rights.</div>
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<div>The military court on Tuesday approved an arrest warrant for Nopporn Suppipat, a Thai energy businessman, accused of falsely claiming about the monarchy, in the scandal related to a high ranking officer and the family of the royal-assigned surname.<span style="font-size: 12px;">The military court on Tuesday approved an arrest warrant for Nopporn Suppipat, a Thai energy businessman, accused of making false claims about the monarchy, in the scandal related to high-ranking police officers and the family with a royally-assigned surname.</span></div>
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<div>The military claimed that Khon Kaen three-fingered activists were hired by local politicians to discredit the junta leader and urged students not to use emotion to follow the anti-coup after several groups of student activists join hands in denouncing the junta’s martial law.</div>
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<div>Maj Gen Kampanat Ruddit, the deputy Army Chief-of-Staff said on Monday that five Khon Kaen students from Dao Din group, who were arrested for waving three fingers and wearing t-shirts with the message reads ‘No Coup’ during Prayuth’s, the head of the junta, visit in the northern province of
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<div>The Criminal Court on Monday ruled to try in secret the case of a man charged with lèse majesté for sending to the Stop Lèse Majesté blog a link to content deemed as defaming the King. </div>
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<div>At 3.15 pm, Tanet (last name withheld due to privacy concerns) was taken to court for a preliminary hearing.
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<p>Three brothers and two more people connected to a network of high ranking police officers charged with lèse majesté are accused of defaming the monarchy, illegal possession of weapons, robbery, and holding others for ransom. A total of seven people involved in this case have now been charged with lèse majesté. </p>
<p>The investigators on 28 November detained three siblings, Natthapol, Sitthisak, and Narong Akharapongpreecha, and Sutthisak Sutthijit and Chakan Phakphum, who are allegedly criminally associated with Pol Lt Gen Pongpat Chayapan.</p>
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<div>After a woman was arrested and charged with lèse majesté and offences under the Computer Crime Act for a Facebook post defaming the King, suspected to be a ploy to cause the woman trouble, two more people face the same charges. </div>
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<div>The military court on Friday approved the second custody request to detain the three suspects for another 12 days in detention. </div>
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<div>Jaruwan E., 26, Anon, 22, and Chat, 20 were accused of defaming the King on a public Facebook page with the name Jaruwan E. (full name and surname in Thai).
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<div>The military court on Friday made the unprecedented decision to grant bail to a lèse majesté suspect. </div>
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<div>The Bangkok military court on Friday at 2 pm granted 400,000 baht bail to a man known by his pen name as Bundit Aneeya, a 73-year-old writer and translator, who was arrested on Wednesday for making a comment during a seminar that allegedly defamed the King. </div>
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<div>The bail conditions include that the suspect will stop joining political activity and stop expressing opinion which may instigate the people. </div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12px;">Khon Kaen student activists arrested for <a href="http://prachatai.org/english/node/4506">giving three-fingered salute at the head of the junta</a> reported intimidations they received after their release to the United Nations officers in Bangkok.
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<div>The Appeal Court on Friday affirmed the decision of the Court of First Instance to acquit the man who was accused by his own brother of defaming the King. </div>
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<div>Yutthaphum (last name withheld due to privacy concerns), 35, was accused in 2009 of making inappropriate remarks or curses in the presence of his brother while watching the news on television showing HM the King in a wheelchair and buying and writing inappropriate words in parentheses on a CD on which was written ‘Stop offending HM the King’.
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