<p>The Irawaddy - At least two Burmese migrant workers were beaten by Thai police during their investigation into the murder of two British tourists on the southern Thai island of Koh Tao, one of the alleged victims has claimed.</p>
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<div>In a bid to threaten anti-coup activists, the police on Thursday summoned three student activists after they commemorated the 2006 coup d’état on 19 September and charged them with littering a pedestrian bridge.
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<div>The Criminal Court on Thursday rejected a bail request on behalf of Patiwat S., who has been charged with lèse majesté because he starred in the Wolf Bride, a stage play about a fictional monarch. </div>
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<div>Ratchada Criminal Court on Thursday granted a police request to detain the suspect for six more days.
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<div>Can Tho - Vietnamese civil society groups gathered in preparation for an upcoming official public consultation about the Don Sahong dam in Lao.
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<p dir="ltr">The victim of a violent confrontation between the pro-government and anti-government camps in February has died today without receiving justice.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Akaew Sae-Liew, a 72-year-old street vendor, was shot on his neck by gunmen, believably to be affiliated with the People’s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC), during a confrontation between the red shirts and anti-election PDRC guards at Lak Si Intersection on 1 February.</p>
<p>After the incident, Akaew suffered from paralysis for eight months before his death this morning.</p>
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<p>Police searched the house of a Media Selatan Radio journalist in the southernmost province of Pattani without a search warrant and asked for DNA samples of the occupants.</p>
<p>The police claimed that they wanted to search for illegal drugs and that they did not need a search warrant under martial law.</p>
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<p>On 22 September 2014, Phetchaburi Provincial Court accepted an appeal request on the unlawful detention of “Billy”, Porlajee Rakchongcharoen for further appellate procedures.</p>
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<p>After the coup d’état in May, Thailand’s national budget for honouring the royal family has increased significantly by approximately 20 per cent from around 14 billion baht or about US$435 million this year to over 17 billion baht or about US$536 million next year.</p>
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<div>The Appeal Court on Friday affirmed the decision of the Court of First Instance to sentence Somyos Prueksakasemsuk to 10 years in jail for editing lèse majesté articles written by others.</div>
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<div>Somyos Prueksakasemsuk has been detained at Bangkok Remand Prison for almost four years.</div>
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<div>He was found guilty of being the editor of Voice of Taksin monthly magazine which published two articles deemed to insult the King.
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<div>The military and police on Thursday evening detained four academics and three student activists for organizing and participating in a seminar about the end of dictatorial regimes in foreign countries after forcing the seminar to be stopped. They were released about 9.30pm.</div>
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<div>The seminar was a part of the political seminar series “Democracy Classroom”, organized by League of Liberal Thammasat for Democracy (LLTD), a progressive Thammasat student group.
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<p>The Bangkok Military Court on Thursday sentenced three peaceful anti-coup protesters to six months’ imprisonment and fines of 10,000 baht, but with the jail terms suspended.</p>
<p>Because the three defendants pleaded guilty, the court decided to halve the sentences to three months and a fine of 5,000 baht each and suspended the jail terms for two years. </p>
<p>Woraphon Vichasut, Nattawut Nuchanarot, and Sumet Virojchaiyan took part in anti-coup protests in late May 2014.</p>
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<div>The public prosecutor on Thursday indicted an undergraduate student under the lèse majesté law and the Computer Crime Act for a Facebook comment. </div>
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