<p>On June 26, the Office of the Attorney-General again postponed a decision on whether to prosecute Chiranuch Premchaiporn who has been charged for allowing comments offensive to the monarchy to be posted on the Prachatai webboard.</p> <p>The prosecution has ordered the police to conduct further investigations and told Chiranuch to report again on July 29.</p>

<p>On June 25, Daranee Charncherngsilapakul&rsquo;s lawyer requested the Court to seek a Constitutional Court ruling on whether the Court&rsquo;s decision to hold the trial in secret is constitutional or not, and temporarily suspend the trial until the Constitutional Court gives its ruling.</p>

<p>With the practice of torture rampant across Asia, it remains one of the most serious obstacles to social health. To battle this injustice, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) announced today its plan to launch a year-long campaign to lobby for the criminalisation of torture in Asian countries, starting June 26. This will correlate with the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.</p>

<p>Daranee Charncherngsilpakul, aka &lsquo;Da Torpedo&rsquo;, who has been accused of l&egrave;se majest&eacute; and held in prison without bail since 22 July 2008, will face her first trial in court on June 23, and trials in her other two cases in which she is accused of leading protesters to surround ASTV and insulting coup leader Gen Saprang Kalayanamitr will follow.</p> <p>Prachatai talked to her lawyer Prawase Praphanukul who agreed to take the case despite their different political stance.</p>

<p>On the occasion of &nbsp;Daw Aung San Suu Kyi&rsquo;s&nbsp;64th birthday that falls on 19th June 2009, we, the undersigned reiterate our call for the immediate and unconditional release of Aung San Suu Kyi and all other political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in Burma.</p>

<p>Despite its wrong caption, <a href="http://www.thairath.co.th/today/view/12919">Thai Rath</a>&rsquo;s photo of a former PAD guard grabbing the hair of a red-shirt woman and dragging her along the road during the military crackdown in April has won the Best Photo of the Year Award from the Mass Media Photographers Association of Thailand (MPA). The MPA President explained it won because it is so vividly emotional that no description is necessary. Abhisit will preside over the ceremony on June 18.</p>

<p>On May 29, social critic <a href="http://www.sulak-sivaraksa.org/th/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=2290047&amp;Itemid=1">Sulak Sivaraksa</a> sent a letter to the HM the King&rsquo;s Principal Private Secretary, asking him to look into the case of nominated human rights commissioner Parinya Sirisarakarn, owner of a salt mining business in Nakhon Ratchasima which has been the subject of complaints about its impact on the livelihoods of local communities.</p>

<p>On June 10, Thanapol Ewsakul, editor of Fah Diew Kan magazine and owner of <a href="http://www.sameskybooks.org/">www.sameskybooks.org</a>, gave testimony at the Crime Suppression Division to police and public prosecutors as a witness for alleged offences on web-boards.</p>

<p>The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to you following the inquest findings of a court in Thailand issued on 29 May 2009 that the deaths of 78 men in Narathiwat in October 2004 was a result of suffocation while being carried in vehicles. The findings clear the way for prosecutions of the persons responsible for this heinous crime, which attracted and continues to attract global attention and bring Thailand into international disrepute.</p>

<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">We, migrants from Burma, live in a perpetual state of crisis and the global economic crisis is further adding to our difficult and sometimes desperate situation.</span></span></p>

<div>The webmaster of a teen website has been interrogated by police twice for a comment deemed &lsquo;probably&rsquo; offensive to the monarchy, which was posted by a reader almost two years ago.</div>

<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Mr. Sawit Keawan, General Secretary of Thailand&rsquo;s State Enterprise Workers Relations Confederation (SERC*), today, file a complaint with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) during the 98th International Labour Conference in Switzerland. This complaint alleges that the Royal Thai Government (RTG) is breaching the ILO&rsquo;s Equality of Treatment (Accident Compensation) Convention (C-19) by denying Burmese migrant worker access to the Social Security Office&rsquo;s (SSO) Workmen&rsquo;s Compensation Fund (WCF) following accidents at work.</span></span></p>