The Pheu Thai party is filing a complaint with the Election Commission of Thailand (EC) over a slip-up on a document listing the names of the candidates for Bangkok’s 11th constituency in the upcoming general election, which has been sent to Thai voters registering for overseas voting at the Thai embassy in London.

Amporn Pinasa, Secretary-General of the Basic Education Commission, discussed the purpose behind the design of the Ministry of Education (MOE)’s Thai-language textbook Pasa Patee for fifth-grade students after criticism of its content.

On 18 April 2023, the Thairath Election Debate 2023 was broadcast on the Thairath TV Youtube channel, with Jomquan Laopetch as moderator. In the final session, each party presented their position on Section 112 of the Criminal Code, the royal defamation or lèse majesté law.

As four park officials charged with pre-meditated murder for their alleged involvement in the abduction and death of indigenous right activist Porlajee “Billy” Rakchongcharoen go on trial, civil society organizations have demanded that they be suspended to make sure the judicial process cannot be tampered with.

Songpol “Yajai” Sonthirak, an activist from the Thalufah group, has been summoned by the police in Khon Kaen on a royal defamation complaint filed against him by a royalist group leader now running as MP candidate for the Thai Pakdee Party.

One leader in the movement against the forest reclamation policy of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), Den Khamlae, a leading land rights activist, mysteriously disappeared 7 years ago and was later declared dead. He was last seen entering a forest to collect mushrooms and bamboo shoots in Khok Yao community in Chaiyaphum Province, where the villagers face a land dispute.

The ultra-royalist group People’s Centre to Protect the Monarchy has filed a royal defamation complaint against French TikToker Yan Marchal over his latest online video.

Anon Klinkaew, leader of the ultra-royalist group People’s Centre to Protect the Monarchy, has threatened to kill a 15-year-old monarchy reform advocate, because she refused to take part in the judicial process after being charged with royal defamation.

On the 9th anniversary of the disappearance of indigenous rights activist Porlajee “Billy” Rakchongcharoen, activists in Bangkok staged a protest to raise awareness about enforced disappearance and to call for reform of the justice system.

Piyabutr Saengkanokkul, former Secretary-General of the now-dissolved Future Forward Party, has been accused of sedition in relation to a discussion in the Clubhouse application over the burning of a royal portrait. 

For the past two weeks, photojournalist Natthaphon Phanphongsanon has been continuously harassed by police officers, who were stationed in front of his condominium and who coerced the building’s management into giving them information about him and CCTV footage of his activity.

For the first week 15-year-old Thanalop spent in pre-trial detention at a Juvenile Centre, her lawyer said Centre officials refused to allow her visitors and did not inform the lawyer that Thanalop had contracted Covid-19 until several days after she tested positive.