<p>Activists and red shirts have continued to converge at Ratchaprasong on Sundays to commemorate the loss of lives in the area. Last Sunday an activist was arrested and fined for making a loud noise.</p>
<p>Suwicha Thakor has entered the monkhood in his hometown of Nakhon Phanom, after being released from prison where he was detained for over a year on lèse majesté charges.</p>
<p>Lèse majesté convict Bunyuen Prasertying was recently granted a royal pardon on the occasion of Coronation Day (5 May), and released from jail around the same time as some other convicts, including Suwicha Thakor.</p>
<p>Bunyuen did not look much changed from when she was in prison. Though seemingly not in very good health, and walking unsteadily as a result of an old motorcycle accident, her eyes still shone with enthusiasm.</p>
<p>Chiranuch Premchaiporn has informed readers that the Prachatai webboard will be closed on 31 July. The announcement should have been made a month earlier, but she has been too speechless, she says. She apologizes to readers.</p>
<p>The Prachatai webboard was created when the Prachatai website first began, and was meant to be a space for free discussion.</p>
<p>A teenage contestant in a popular reality TV show ‘Academic Fantasia’ is the latest target of outrage in the Thai cyber world for making strong political comments on his Facebook page against the PM.</p>
<p>Withawas Thaokhamlue, 17, aka Mark V 11 in the reality TV show produced by the True cable television station, has posted comments on his Facebook page, rebuking the PM after the government crackdown on the red shirts.</p>
By Chada Aiyakupt, Matichon |
<p>Inthira Saraniam, 27, is a red shirt who organized her wedding ceremony at Sanam Luang. Her father is a staunch red-shirt supporter who plastered his taxi cab with stickers condemning the 2006 coup junta, the Council for National Security, and all kinds of dictatorship, until the car was burned. He also joined the anti-coup activities early on in Sanam Luang, before the movement later turned into the red shirts.</p>
<p>The army will continue its programme called ‘Fight the economic crisis with the Sufficiency Economy Philosophy’ by sending ISOC staff to visit communities to create unity among the people and explain the military role in the recent crackdown.</p>
<p>On the same day that PAD leader Sondhi Limthongkul was indicted for lèse majesté, the court postponed a case involving 85 yellow shirts who stormed the studios of state television channel NBT in August 2008.</p>
<p>We the undersigned are the Board Members and Officers of the ‘Union for Thai Democracy’, a Not-For-Profit collective of Thai-Americans who are concerned about the regression of Democracy and Human Rights in Thailand.</p>
<p>Over 500 Satun residents oppose the Pak Bara deep-sea port project for fear of impacts on the environment and local livelihoods, as has happened in the Mab Ta Phut Eastern Seaboard.</p>
<p>A group of human rights NGOs and activists have opposed the government's extension of the imposition of the Emergency Decree.</p>
<p>The DSI will ask the CRES for information on 27 anti-monarchists whom the CRES has accused of plotting against the institution.</p>
<p>DSI Deputy Director General Pol Col Yanaphol Yangyuen said on 3 July that a chart which had previously been publicized by the CRES had identified 27 people involved in the crime of lèse majesté, which threatens national security. These 27 persons have not been arrested.</p>