<p>Minister of Information and Communications Technology Juti Krairiksh said that on 18 Oct he invited 17 internet service providers (ISPs) to a meeting to ask for their cooperation in blocking improper websites which were found to have been increasing in number, over 82% of them being offensive against the monarchy containing doctored images.&nbsp; Only 7 ISPs showed up at the meeting.</p> <p>The cause of the increase of such websites has yet to be determined, the Minister said.</p>

<p>On 19 Oct, Amornwan Charoenkij, a red-shirt vendor who was arrested for selling flip-flops with the faces of Abhisit Vejjajiva and Suthep Thaugsuban, reported to police in Ayutthaya as scheduled.&nbsp; The police finished the indictment and forwarded the case to the public prosecutor on that day.&nbsp; Surachet Chaikosol, Puea Thai MP for the province, bailed her out at the prosecution stage using his position as a guarantee.&nbsp; Amornwan is required to report again on 21 Oct.</p>

<p>On 19 Oct, Kittichai Charnchoengsilpakul told Prachatai that last week he and a foreign academic visited his sister Daranee in prison.&nbsp; The prison authorities did not permit the foreign academic to visit her, citing the more restricted regulations of the prison.&nbsp; Kittichai was told by Daranee during his visit that the authorities told her that red shirts would not be allowed to visit her. </p> <p>Daranee has been sentenced to 18 years in jail for l&egrave;se majest&eacute; offences, and her case is now on appeal.<br /> &nbsp;</p>

<p>A student and two red shirts in Chiang Rai have been arrested for selling flip-flops printed with the face of Abhisit Vejjajiva.&nbsp; This is the second time the high school student has been arrested; in July he joined four college students in staging a protest in the town against the government crackdown on the red shirts in Ratchaprasong and the Emergency Decree.</p>

<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia &ndash; Human rights activists in Kuala Lumpur have produced a play that takes a hard look at the death penalty, taking off from the story of a young Malaysian sentenced to hang in Singapore.</p>

<p>A flip-flop vendor has been further charged by Ayutthaya police for distorting facts about the killings at Ratchaprasong and offending traditional Thai morals for putting the faces of Abhisit and Suthep on her flip-flops.</p>

<p>On Oct 12, at Government House, Boworn Yasintorn, representing the People's Volunteer Network for the Protection of the Monarchy, submitted a petition to Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya, ICT Minister Juti Krairiksh, and Justice Minister Peerapan Saleeratwipak, asking them to take measures against l&egrave;se majest&eacute; content on Facebook. </p>

<p>Former Army Chief Gen Sonthi Boonyarattakalin, leader of the 2006 coup, and Deputy Prime Minister Maj Gen Sanan Kochornprasat faced a protest by a group of students dressed up like ghosts during a public forum on reconciliation and amnesty at Ramkhamhaeng University.</p> <p>On 11 Oct, Gen Sonthi and Maj Gen Sanan were among speakers on reconciliation and amnesty as a solution to political problems at a forum held by the Faculty of Political Science and the students&rsquo; organization of the university.</p>

<p>Khamnoon Sitthisaman, appointed senator and Sondhi Limthongkul&rsquo;s right-hand man, wrote in his ASTV-Manager column that Sombat Boon-ngam-anong&rsquo;s symbolic activities are more dangerous than violent campaigns, as they cannot be handled by the law.</p>

<p>A homeless scavenger who was arrested on16 May and jailed under the Emergency Decree will be given a court ruling at the end of this month.</p> <p>Somphol Wangprasert was brought to Pathumwan District Court on 6-7 Oct to be tried for his alleged offences under the Emergency Decree: conspiring with other four or more people to gather and instigate public unrest and using roads prohibited under the decree.</p>

<p>Two protesters convicted to one year in jail under the Emergency Decree during the government crackdown in May try to make their voices heard through a group of activists called &lsquo;Social Move&rsquo;.</p> <p>The group has raised their story to call attention to the plight of numerous unknown victims of the Emergency Decree held in prison.</p>

<p>A shoe repairer has been charged with l&egrave;se majest&eacute; and denied bail for calling 191 to make a bomb threat against Siriraj Hospital.</p>