<p>Photojournalist Natthaphon Phanphongsanon was attacked by a group of pro-monarchy supporters in April 2022. &nbsp;After almost year, justice in the case is seemingly being impeded by the police.</p>

<p>A month has passed since police officers stomped and beat reporters while dispersing an APEC 2022 protest. Calls for an investigation by media associations have met with little progress.</p>

<p>Representatives of 6 professional media organizations met with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Thursday (1 December) to file a petition calling for an investigation into the crackdown on the 18 November anti-government protest, in which several members of the press were injured.</p>

<p>Independent photojournalist Natthaphon Phanphongsanon was attacked by 4 men near the Democracy Monument after a protest. Another journalist and a bystander were injured by pro-monarchists in another incident that took place shortly afterward.</p>

<p>Academics, lawyers, a former Constitutional Court judge and a former television newsroom editor have discussed the Constitutional Court verdict outlawing the call for monarchy reform. Despite the different stances taken, the lèse majesté law and cultural values regarding the monarchy prove to have a serious effect on media freedom.</p>

<div> <div>Two major journalist organisations have condemned the recent order to suspend for 30 days the broadcasting licence of a TV station run by red-shirt leaders.</div> <div> </div> <div>On 11 May 2018, the Thai Journalists Association and the Thai Broadcast Journalists Association released a joint statement denouncing the order by the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) to suspend the broadcast licence of Peace TV for 30 days.</div> <div> </div> <div>Citing National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) Orders 97/2014 and 103/2014, the NBTC imposed the month- </div></div>

<p>Media professionals and human rights advocates have called on the regime to stop using the sedition law to instil an environment of fear and silence its critics.</p> <p>On 3 August 2017, members of the press and human rights advocates gathered at the Thai Journalists Association (TJA) in Bangkok for a public discussion on the use of Article 116 of the Criminal Code, the sedition law.</p>

<p>Thai media associations have voiced opposition to the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission decision to temporarily ban Voice TV, saying it should safeguard media freedom rather than bow down to the junta.</p>

<p>The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the South East Asia Journalist Unions (SEAJU) join the National Union of Journalist of Thailand (NUJT) in denouncing the draft media regulation bill that will further suppress media in already challenging environment.&nbsp;The IFJ and SEAJU call for the bill to be scrapped immediately.</p>

<p>The junta’s National Reform Steering Assembly (NRSA) has proposed a new bill to set moral standards for the media which it blames for social ills. Media groups, however, say the bill gives the government greater control.</p> <p>Six leading media associations plan to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/politics/1184917/media-groups-renew-control-bill-battle">meet at the Thai Journalists Association (TJA)</a>&nbsp;on Sunday &nbsp;29 January 2017 to voice their stance against the NRSA’ Media Reform Bill.</p>