<p><span>The 19 Sept Anti-coup Network issued a statement to oppose the court order for the detention of Mr. </span><span>Sombat Boon-ngam-anong</span><span>, leader of the Citizens Against Coup Group as a result of libel suit filed by General </span><span>Saprang Kalayanamitr.</span><span> </span></p>

<p>The Greenpeace Climate Clinic offers an opportunity for Bangkokians to calculate their personal carbon footprint on a computer that runs on solar and wind power installed on top of the container that houses the center. </p>

<p>Around 300 student activists representing the Students Federation of Thailand (SFT) and different universities including King Mongkut&#39;s Institute of Technology North Bangkok (KMIT-NB), Ramkhamhaeng University, and Chulalongkorn University, gathered in front of parliament at 1.00 pm on 29 August 2007 to demand withdrawal of the KMIT-NB University Privatization Bill and other university privatization bills.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p>At 16.30 on 31 August 2007, at the request of the police, the Criminal Court approved a 12-day detention order of Mr. Sombat Boon-ngam-anong, leader of the Citizens against Coup Group. That evening he was transferred to Bangkok Prison.</p>

<p>&nbsp;<span>On 26 August 2007, at the Islamic Studies College, Prince of Songkhla University (PSU) - Pattani Campus, the Working Group on Justice for Peace (WJP) organized a public hearing on the four-months career training programme, covering its implications for human rights, communities, and the rule of law. About 100 people attended. </span></p>

<p>After Mr. Sombat Boon-ngam-anong, leader of an anti-coup group, was sued for libel by General Saprang Kalayanamitr, Deputy Commander in Chief, he had this open letter published in <u>www.nocoup.org</u>. Prachatai reprints it here. </p>

<p>(New York, August 28, 2007) - In their efforts to establish an independent state in Thailand&#39;s southern border provinces, separatist groups are killing and mutilating civilians and attacking schools, community clinics, and Buddhist temples, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.</p>

<p><span>The phenomenon of red or &quot;vote no&quot; zone</span><span>s in the upper North cannot help but point to the existence of the residual powers. It had the media, academics, foreign countries, the military and even some people inside the current government thinking about the former PM, exiled in a distant country. The referendum has been interpreted as the liberation of Thai Rak Thai folk from their fears. This will simply increase the tension for the next election. </span></p>

<p>The adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December 1948 was a noble effort to separate morality from religion thereby establishing a framework of ethics that is universal, common to all.</p>

<p>On 30 August 2007, 9 AM,&nbsp;Action Network for Migrant Worker in Bangkok is organizing a protest program against the Provincial Decree on Migrant Workers in front of Government House in Bangkok.</p>

<p>The People's Network for Election (PNET) found clear military interference in the referendum on Aug 19, on the basis of reports of 4,000 volunteers it sent to observe polling at stations in 41 provinces across the country.</p>

<p><span>The </span><span>referendum on the draft 2007 constitution was not important just as a ritual to either accept or reject the supreme national charter. There are many hidden meanings in the tense, distorted and manipulative political manoeuvring by the powers that be in the past few months. Despite that, more than ten million voters dared to come out and voice their opposition to the powers that be. </span></p>