The Appeal Court today (16 August) ruled to uphold the guilty verdict against Atirut (last name withheld), a 29-year-old programmer charged with royal defamation for shouting at a royal motorcade.

When the Rohingya refugee crisis is discussed internationally, global attention usually centres on Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar camps, which became emblematic of displacement after Myanmar’s 2017 military crackdown. Less visible is the situation unfolding across Southeast Asia. In Thailand, Rohingya refugees and migrants live in prolonged legal uncertainty frequently detained, rarely recognised, and largely absent from formal protection frameworks.

A network of civil society organisations has filed a petition with the Social Security Office (SSO) demanding that it ensure access to abortion for individuals insured under the Social Security Scheme.

Two detained pro-democracy activists, who face multiple royal defamation lawsuits, have been granted bail in a case over their speech on 1 February 2021. However, they remain in detention because they have been denied bail in other cases.

The Appeal Court has sentenced former activist Phromsorn Viradhammajari to 2 years and 10 months in prison on a royal defamation charge over the 14 January 2021 protest demanding the release of a student activist who had been arrested.

A group of Chiang Mai residents staged a protest in front of the US Consulate in Chiang Mai on Sunday (8 March) against the US attack on Iran.

The family of a Royal Thai Air Force conscript who died last July remains suspicious about the circumstances surrounding his death after the Air Force claimed he died from a brain abscess.

A former MP from the dissolved Move Forward Party (MFP) has been sentenced to prison for violating the election law on the grounds that he ran in the 2023 general election knowing that he was ineligible due to a criminal case from 1999. The former MP was banned from running for political office for 20 years.

Abdulafir Seng, an activist and volunteer reporter for the Deep South news outlet Wartani, has been sentenced to 2 years and 4 months in prison on sedition and other charges.

The Election Commission of Thailand (ECT) has sued several citizens for sedition and membership of an unlawful secret society after they attempted to decode the QR codes printed on the ballot papers to demonstrate a lack of transparency in the 2026 general election.

The Supreme Administrative Court accepted a lawsuit filed by an online news agency over police violence against reporters during the 18 November 2022 crackdown on anti-government demonstrators, overturning an earlier Administrative Court ruling dismissing the lawsuit.

The Army has said that it will launch an investigation into the death of Private Phetcharat Kamlangying, who died while in detention at the 12th Military Circle prison on 11 November 2025.