<div>Bangkok, 27 November - The Third Committee of the United Nations General assembly on 26 November passed a resolution on the safety or journalists and the issue of impunity, among others setting 2 November as the “International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists.”</div> <p></p>

<div>Following the rising tension in Bangkok due to the anti-government mass demonstration, the European Union and United States has said they were “concerned” with the situation and called on all sides to avoid violence, while Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) are especially concerned with the safety of the journalists.&nbsp;</div> <p></p>

<div>Four women are living under the same roof, but each of them has a husband elsewhere who they are not living with.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The documentary film called “Our Marriages”, describing how LGBT minorities suffer from the conventional Chinese concept of marriage, was shown at a screening event held at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre (QSNCC) on Thursday 21.&nbsp;</div> <p></p>

<div>German freelance photojournalist Nick Nostitz was assaulted on Monday afternoon in front of the Metropolitan Police Bureau, in Bangkok, by anti-government protesters, after Chumpol Julsai, former Democrat MP and protest leader,&nbsp;&nbsp;identified him as “red shirt journalist” through loudspeaker.</div> <p></p>

<div>The Constitutional Court’s latest ruling was full of serious errors, pointed out the courageous “Nitirat” group of law academics after the Court judged last week that the attempt by the ruling Pheu Thai MPs to amend the coup-makers’ charter to change the senate from being partly elected and partly appointed to fully elected was unconstitutional. The group also urged the Parliament to defy the court's decision.</div> <div> </div>

<div>From the latest Supreme Court's ruling on&nbsp;lèse majesté case, historians, political scientists and law academics discussed the implication of the ruling on the study of Thai history.&nbsp;</div> <div> </div>

<div>Netiwit Chotipatpaisal, a M.5 student who has led a national campaign against compulsory haircuts in school since last year, has rejected his nomination for a National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) award, stating that he doubts whether the NHRC really takes the human rights issues seriously.&nbsp;</div> <p></p>

<div> <div>The Supreme Court recently handed out a landmark verdict in a lèse majesté case in which the defendant was found guilty of defaming King Rama IV, reigning between 1851-1868, surprising lawyers and academics who have always understood that the law does not cover former kings.&nbsp;</div> <div> </div></div>

<p><br />Thousands of red shirts led by Sombat Boongamanong gathered at Ratchaprasong intersection on Sunday to voice out against the blanket amnesty draft bill.&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: center;"> </p>

<div>A few thousand anti-establishment red-shirt supporters gathered at Ratchaprasong intersection, a commercial district of Bangkok, to protest against the controversial blanket amnesty draft bill and show support for the ruling Pheu Thai government.&nbsp;</div> <p></p>

<p>The Court of Appeal on Friday at 10 am ruled that Chiranuch Premchaiporn was guilty of allowing lèse majesté comments, posted by others, on her website. The Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the Court of First Instance in May 2012, to sentence Chiranuch to one year in prison and a fine of 30,000 baht, but since Chiranuch’s testimony was beneficial to the trial, the jail term was reduced to eight months and the fine was reduced to 20,000 baht.&nbsp; The jail term was suspended for one year.</p> <p></p>

<div>The Court of Appeal on Ratchadaphisek Road in Bangkok is scheduled to deliver its verdict in the case of Chiranuch Premchaiporn, Director of Prachatai, on Friday, November 8, at 9 am in room 711. &nbsp;The case involves lèse majesté comments posted by others on the Prachatai webboard. &nbsp;Chiranuch, as Director of Prachatai, was held liable for the lèse majesté comments under the Computer Crime Law.&nbsp;</div> <div> </div>