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<p dir="ltr">Visanu Kreungam, deputy minister on legal issue, said on Wednesday that the public gathering bill has been drafted and will be deliberated by the so-called rubber stamp National Legislative Assembly (NLA) soon.</p>
<p>The royal Thai police was responsible for drafting the bill and has been submitted to the minister for a final review.</p>
<p>Visanu added that he will improve the draft to be suitable to the current political situation that most of the gatherings are politically related.</p>
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<div>The court has rejected an appeal to investigate an alleged torture case in Pattani on grounds that the 2007 Constitution can no longer be used to claim a citizen’s basic rights, according to the <a href="http://th.macmuslim.com/?p=810">Muslim Attorney Center Foundation</a>.</div>
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<div>On 7 September, the Pattani Provincial Court rejected an appeal by Rohima Huseng, who alleged security officers in Pattani tortured her brother, Hasan Huseng, during interrogation.</div>
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<p>Alleged torture and threats against two migrant workers suspected of murder on touristic Ko Tao Island suggest poor legal standards and lack of protection for suspects in Thailand.</p>
<p>Two Myanmar migrant workers based on Ko Tao, southern Surat Thani Province, have accused the Thai police of torturing them by pouring hot water on them, beating them, and threatening to electrocute them in order to have them confess to murdering two British backpacker tourists, Hannah Witheridge, 23, and David Miller, 24, on 15 September.</p>
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<p>Activists and landless villagers on Tuesday rallied to pressure the junta to stop land encroachment and evictions.</p>
<p>On Tuesday, despite the fact that martial law is still in place, Four Regions Slum Network (FRSN) and People's Movement for a Just Society (P-Move) organized a rally in front of the UN Building in Bangkok on World Habitat Day and planned to move to Government House to submit a petition to the junta, although the military forbade the rally to move to Government House.</p>
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<div>A lèse majesté complaint has been filed against controversial former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and those involved with the Thai translation of <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Conversations-Thaksin-Deliverance-Thailands-Populist/dp/9814328685">Conversation with Thaksin</a></em>, a one-sided account of Thai politics from Thaksin as interviewed by American journalist Tom Plate, <a href="http://www.posttoday.com/%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A3%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B7%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%87/322181/%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%8A%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B0-%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%88%E0%B9</p>
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<div>The police on Friday arrested a man for lèse majesté at a house in central Samut Prakan Province, <a href="http://www.manager.co.th/Crime/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=9570000114022">ASTV-Manager</a> Online reported.
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<div>A court in Chiang Mai decided on Wednesday to halt hearings in the case of a red-shirt supporter who faces a lèse majesté charge for throwing royal flags into the river, because the defendant suffered a stroke,<a href="http://freedom.ilaw.or.th/en/case/353#detail"> iLaw</a> has reported. </div>
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<div>On 19 May 2010, Kritsada S., a food vendor, joined a red-shirt demonstration in Chiang Mai’s Muang District. The demonstration was held in parallel with the mass street protests at Bangkok’s Ratchaprasong intersection.
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<div>Ubon Ratchathani Court in the northeastern province in July gave an unprecedented sentence of 30 years in jail to a musician for defaming the king.
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<div>It’s always the big issue for people coming out of the closet. If it’s your parents, what do you do?</div>
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<div>Noppon Poti, 19, who identifies himself as a gay individual, wrote a short letter and declared his sexuality to his mother. “Without a letter, I’m sure I wasn’t able to come out to my mother,” he said. “Letters can say many things.”</div>
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<div>When Areerat Poti, his mother, read the short letter, she was shocked, even though she knew long ago he was gay. But at the same time, she was happy to hear it from him.
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<div>A Thai man said he was beaten up by police after he turned down a police offer of reward money if he agreed to be a witness in the murder case of two British tourists in Thailand’s tourist island of Koh Tao, southern Surat Thani Province, according to <a href="http://www.manager.co.th/South/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=9570000112441">ASTV-Manager online.</a></div>
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<div>The report says Pornprasit Sukdam, 37, on Tuesday complained to Kobchai Saowalak, kamnan (subdistrict head) of Koh Tao Subdistrict, and asked for protection. </div>
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<div><em>Update: Police at Prathumwan Police Station fined the two student activists from Chulalongkorn University -- Nattisa Pattamapornpong, from Faculty of Education, and Thapakorn Kaewlangka, from Faculty of Engineering, 1,000 baht each for violating Article 10 of the Cleanliness and Order Act.</em></div>
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<div>After police last week charged and fined three anti-coup student activists with littering after they held a commemoration of the 2006 coup, two more student activists have been summoned to hear charges related to the event. </div>
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<div><a href="http://prachatai.org/english/node/4338">Akaradej</a> (last name withheld due to privacy concerns) on Tuesday pleaded guilty before the Court to posting comments deemed lèse majesté on Facebook.
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