<p>The military have summoned key leaders of the anti-establishment red shirt group in northern Thailand to a military base over a draft constitution referendum watch campaign.</p>
<p>Siriwat Jupamattha, a key red shirt leader in the northern province of Phayao, told the media that soldiers from the 34th Military Circle on Tuesday, 14 June 2016, summoned him and another red shirt leader for a discussion, <a href="https://tlhr2014.wordpress.com/2016/06/14/ban_referendum_center/">Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) </a>reported.</p>
By Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) |
<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1965d1f4-14a8-0857-4c0e-43195d97d7e4">Not long after the second round of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Thailand on 11 May 2016 ended, several questions from member states concerning human rights situations in Thailand, including the military jurisdiction, the enforced disappearance, and the restriction of freedom of expression have resulted in the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO)’s attempt to appear as more alleviate on people’s exercise of rights and freedoms.</span></p>
<p>A Provincial Court has sentenced two suspects accused of making false claims about HRH Princess Sirindhorn for financial benefit to three years and eight months in prison.</p>
<p><a href="https://tlhr2014.wordpress.com/2016/05/30/112kampangpetch_5/">Thai lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR)</a> reported that the Provincial Court of the northern province of Kamphaeng Phet sentenced Kittiphop S., 23, and Wiset P., 30, to four years’ imprisonment for offences under Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lèse majesté law.</p>
<p>Police officers have decided to press charges against a human rights lawyer representing anti-junta youth activists, accusing her of defying police orders.</p>
<p>According to Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR), on Thursday, 12 May 2016, the prosecutor of Dusit District Court, Bangkok, informed Sirikan Charoensiri, TLHR lawyer, that police investigators have agreed to press charges against her under Articles 142 and 368 of the Criminal Code for propagating false accusations against investigating officers and disobeying police orders.</p>
<p>After the Thai representatives to the UN’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) told other nations that Thai military courts only handle serious crimes involving civilians, Thai human rights lawyers have come up with some facts to counter the lies about the military courts.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The Military Court has detained two of <a href="http://www.prachatai.org/english/category/the-eight-abducted-junta-critics">the eight junta critics </a>and another political dissident charged under the lѐse majesté law.</p>
<p>The Military Court of Bangkok at 3:30 pm on Wednesday, 11 May 2016, granted custody permission to the police to detain Harit Mahaton and Natthika Worathaiwich, suspects of offences under Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lѐse majesté law. </p>
<p>Three female political dissidents, two of whom were forced to undertake pelvic examinations, recall their ordeal in women’s prisons while human rights lawyers have urged the Thai authorities not to violate the rights of detainees.</p>
<div>The Thai military summoned an anti-dam activist into a military camp, warning that he might be charged with the computer crime act and the sedition law for his facebook post reporting land dispute between local people and investors.</div>
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<div>On Wednesday, 4 May 2016, Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) <a href="https://tlhr2014.wordpress.com/2016/05/04/krissakorn_summoned/">reported</a> that on Tuesday, 3 April 2016, Kritsakorn Silarak, a coordinator of the Assembly of the Poor for Pak Mun dam, was summoned into 22th Army Circle Camp in the northeastern province of Ubon
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<div>The Military Court has rejected bail for the eight junta critics abducted by the military on Wednesday, citing the authority of a junta order and the severity of the crime.</div>
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<div>On Friday, 29 April 2016, the court rejected the offer, by lawyers and relatives of the eight junta critics abducted by the military on Wednesday, of 100,000 baht as bail for each critic, ruling that the eight committed serious crimes as a network.
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<p>The junta have charged eight dissidents abducted by the military with sedition while two of the eight are also accused of lѐse majesté. Meanwhile, the police are gathering evidence against key red shirt figures allegedly linked to some of the eight. </p>
<p dir="ltr">The Thai military has released one of <a href="http://prachatai.org/english/node/6087">the 10 persons abducted by the regime</a> in the latest junta’s crackdown on political dissidents.</p>
<p>Nithi Kooltasnasilp at 10:16 pm on Wednesday, 27 April 2016, posted a status on his Facebook account that he has reached home after being interrogated by police officers and soldiers.</p>
<p>The Thai military has abducted 10 people in Bangkok and the northeastern province of Khon Kaen in the junta’s latest crackdown on political dissidents. </p>
<p>According to <a href="https://twitter.com/KAO_VoiceTV21/status/725215022029279232">a reporter from Voice TV</a>, Col Winthai Suwaree, spokesperson of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), said that the military on Wednesday morning, 27 April 2016, detained 10 people in total.</p>