15-year-old activist Thanalop Phalanchai will ask the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) to investigate officers from the Royal Palace Police Station for wrongful arrest, as no progress has been made on the complaint she filed against them.

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.

<p>On Tuesday, the Court handed out one-year jail sentences to 7 defendants arrested for participating in a protest on 11 August 2021. The seven were found to have disrupted public order, a violation of emergency decree provisions enacted for purposes of disease control.&nbsp;The ruling raises concerns the decrees are being broadly interpreted in order to stifle political dissent.</p>