<p dir="ltr">A military court has sentenced to jail an activist demanding a probe into the Rajabhakti Park corruption allegations.</p>
<p>On 25 January 2017, the Military Court of Bangkok <a href="http://www.tlhr2014.com/th/?p=3366">handed out 8 months of imprisonment </a>to Thanet Anantawong for defying the junta’s ban on political gatherings of five or more persons.</p>
<p>The military court judges, however, halved the jail term to four months after Thanet pleaded guilty.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Anti-junta youth activists facing arrest warrants have vowed to fight on despite intimidation from the authorities and the risk of detention.</p>
<p>Sirawit Serithiwat, 23, Chonticha Jaeng-rew, 22, Chanoknan Ruamsap, 22, Abhisit Sapnaphapan, 29, and Korakoch Saengyenpan, 23, five embattled pro-democracy activists currently facing arrest warrants, gathered at Thonburi Railway Station in Bangkok at 10:15 am on Saturday, 16 January 2016.</p>
<p>A man pulled from a hospital last month to face charges of sedition and violating the Computer Crimes Act has jumped bail and is believed to have fled the country.</p>
<p>Thanet Anantawong has not been seen by his lawyer since before the New Year, and has failed to appear at a Bangkok military court under the terms of his bail, human rights lawyer Anond Nampa said today.</p>
<p>“He left me waiting [at the court],” Anond said of a Dec. 29 court date his client failed to appear for.</p>
<p>The Military Court has granted bail to a Rajabhakti activist who was taken from his sickbed and held at an unknown location for five days.</p>
<p>According <a href="https://tlhr2014.wordpress.com/2015/12/18/thanate-116-military-court/">Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR)</a>, the Military Court of Bangkok at 4:20 pm on Friday, 18 December 2015, granted 100,000 baht (about 2,763 USD) bail to Thanet Anantawong, a 25-year-old activist who was taken from his sickbed while waiting for a medical operation last week.</p>