Community networks in the Northern Thailand have filed a lawsuit requesting the cancellation of the Yuam River diversion project and a revocation of project’s EIA approval on the grounds that it was conducted without public participation.

The family of Chit Singhaseni, a royal aide convicted for the murder of King Ananda Mahidol and executed in 1955, has filed a request with the Ratchadaphisek Criminal Court for a new trial.

The Appeal Court ruled yesterday (17 October) not to lift the ban on Rap Against Dictatorship (RAD)’s song “Reform,” claiming that the song incites people to express their opinion without respect for the law and may upset royalists.

A second bail request by human rights lawyer and activist Anon Nampa has been denied despite him showing no tendency to flee.

The Ratchadapisek Criminal Court has found three activists guilty of insult of court and sentenced them to prison for speeches given during a protest in April 2021 to demand the release of political prisoners.

On October 10, the Ratchaburi District Court sentenced Wanthana Othong, a 62-year-old political activist in Ratchaburi province, to 6 months and 10 days in jail without parole and fined her 1,000 baht.

130 Thai migrant workers in Israel have arrived at Don Mueang International Airport by a Royal Thai Air Force plane, while the Foreign Minister has reported increased numbers for Thais killed or taken hostage.

A student from Chiang Mai University has been charged with sedition and other crimes under the Computer Crimes Act and the Public Assembly Act over a 24 June 2023 caravan. Several others have also been charged, including a local news outlet.

Last night (15 October), members of the ultra-royalist group People’s Centre to Protect the Monarchy attacked a group of activists protesting in front of the Ratchadapisek Criminal Court to demand the release of political prisoners. They also threatened reporters livestreaming the protest and other bystanders.

Over 400 Cambodian workers were arrested by the Thai police on 12 October 2023 in Ayutthaya Province. The workers, most of them employed in construction, reached out to their embassy to request the Thai authorities for their release, after their brokers failed to produce promised legal documentation.

Activists from the Bang Kloi indigenous Karen community have filed a petition with two House Committees calling for the authorities to drop encroachment charges against community members who tried to return to their ancestral land in the Kaeng Krachan Forest, from where they were forcibly evacuated.

Following the recent exposure of a sexual harassment case involving an MP, the Move Forward Party (MFP) has reported on the progress of investigations into alleged sexual harassment involving its MPs, and promised to enhance measures to prevent such behaviour by Party members.