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<div>Thai police arrested a woman protester for showing support for the US in front of the US Embassy in Bangkok on 4 July, Independence Day.</div>
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<div>The police detained Chaowanat Musikabhumi, aka “Nong,” at the Crime Suppressiong Division without charges. </div>
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<div>When she was interrogated by the military and security officers at the Thai Army Club, the military officers told her that by holding a placard reading “Long Live USA Day,” she may have violated Article 112 of the Criminal Code or the lèse majesté law that the placard
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<div>Claudio Sopranzetti, an Italian visiting researcher at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, on Monday delivered a presentation "Moving in the cracks: Motorcycle taxi drivers, street protests and the fragility of power in the Thai capital” based on his doctoral dissertation in anthropology at Harvard.
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<p>A campaign calling for capital punishment for rapists went viral on Thai social networks after a man confessed to raping and killing a 13-year-old girl on a train.</p>
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<div>Coup makers continue to threaten academics as the Thai military has unofficially summoned Chulalongkorn political scientist Pitch Pongsawat for "adtitute adjustment" on Friday. </div>
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<div>The talk took place on Friday morning at the military base in Sanam Pao, Bangkok. </div>
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<div>The military on Wednesday contacted Pitch and “invited” him for a “talk.” On Friday, the military sent a van to take the academi to the military base, according to the academic. </div>
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<div>During the three-hour talk, Pitch said on
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<div>The National Broadcasting and Telecommunication Commission (NBTC) on Friday punished a TV operator for airing<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_(TV_series)"> Dexter</a>, an American drama series about a serial killer, because of its “inappropriate” content. </div>
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<div>Natee Sukonrat, Chair of the NBTC, said the drama violates Article 37 of the 2008 Broadcasting Act which prohibits the TV operators from airing content deemed a threat to security, a breach of public morality or public order, or obscenity.
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<div>The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has spent 12.5 million baht (about 386,000 US dollars) on free screenings of the patriotic movie ‘Legend of King Naresuan 5’ as part of the “Resurgent Happiness” campaign of the junta.</div>
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<div>The free screenings for about 250,000 BMA employees and students of BMA schools, will be held during two weeks from 8 July.
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<div>Anti-coup red-shirt activist Sombat Boonngarm-anong has said on Twitter that he wishes to help the junta tackle drug problems, that reds and yellows are united behind bars and that he befriended the anti-red-shirt "popcorn gunman". </div>
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<div>On Thursday, Sombat tweeted on twitter.com/nuling a series on his experience in prison and a series.
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<div>A Thai court on Thursday morning sentenced an anti-coup protester to two months in jail and a fine of 6,000 baht, but since the defendant pleaded guilty, the jail term was suspended. </div>
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<div>Weerayuth Kongkanatan, 49, was arrested on 23 May 2014, a day after the coup, while he was protesting against the coup d’état at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC), near Siam Square. </div>
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<div>“On the night of 23 May, the defendant and 500 accomplices, who are still at large, held an assembly to oppose the coup.
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<div><a href="http://en.khaosod.co.th/detail.php?newsid=1404211157&section=00">Khaosod English</a> reported Tuesday: The ultra-nationalist Thai newspape ASTV Manager has published a "mock column" describing in graphic detail of how prisoners will gang-rape a fugitive anti-coup LGBT activist when she is finally arrested.</div>
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<div>Published under the newspaper’s parody section, known as"Phujadkuan," the mock article describes how the the military junta's National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) will arrest and send the transgender LGBT and pro-demo
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<div>Sombat Boonngam-anong, a high profile anti-coup and red-shirt activist, has been released from custody after interrogation at a police station in the northeast province of Roi Et related to a lèse majesté charge. </div>
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<div>It has been confirmed to Prachatai that the military court granted bail to Sombat on Monday evening.
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