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<div>The police arrested a taxi driver on Monday and charged him with lèse majesté after a passenger filed a police complaint over their conversation on inequality in Thai society. </div>
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<div>The passenger, reportedly a university lecturer, recorded the conversation between them in January on his mobile phone and submitted it to the police as evidence. </div>
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<div>The 43-year-old taxi driver is now detained at the Phaya Thai police station. </div>
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<div>The military released Suthachai Yimprasert, a red-shirt history lecturer at Chulalongkorn University, at about 5 pm, after he reported to the military junta along with ten other activists on Tuesday morning.</div>
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<div>He was released on condition that he will not join any anti-coup activity and not write about the lèse majesté law. </div>
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<div>Suthachai said he did not about the fate of the others. </div>
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<div>Tewarit Maneechay, a Prachatai journalist who was summoned by the same order as Surachai, has not be
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<div>A group of Thai and foreign students from various universities in Japan, approximately 20 students, on Tuesday organised a symbolic protest against the recent military coup, the military’s assumption of power in an illegitimate means, the curbing of freedom of expression, particularly among academics and media, as well as the continued arrests and detentions of critics of the coup, some of whom are university students.</div>
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<div>The protesters wore masks representing those who are behind the political movements against the coup, politicians, academics, po
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<div>The Criminal Court on Monday for the second time rejected a bail request of Apichat (last name withheld due to privacy concerns).
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<div>The Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT) is proposing a plan to build a state-owned Facebook-like social networking site called Thailand Social Network. </div>
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<div>Surachai Srisarakam, MICT Permanent Secretary, said the Thailand Social Network is part of the Ministry’s plan to build the country’s digital infrastructure, called “Smart Thailand,” according to Matichon Online.
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<div>The military junta on Sunday night ordered 38 people, including a Prachatai journalist, to report to the military on Monday and Tuesday at the Thai Army Club, Theves.</div>
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<div>The National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), an administrative body under the coup makers, issued Order no. 42-44 at around 9.30 pm. Ten names appear on Orders no. 42 and no. 43, mostly lawyers and politicians. Order no. 44 contains 28 names, most of them having been involved in campaigns to amend/abolish the notorious lèse majesté law and other left-leaning activities.
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