<div>&nbsp;</div> <div> <div>The BBC will re-open its Thai-language service for three months to provide alternative news after local media have been censored by the junta, according to <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/thailand/10955996/BBC-takes-on-Thailand-dictatorship-with-a-pop-up-Thai-service.html">the Telegraph</a>.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The Telegraph reported on Wednesday that the operation will start this Thursday and will available only on a digital platform.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>“The BBC Thai initiative is a three-month experiment in how to respon </div></div>

<div>&nbsp;</div> <div> <div>Military officers directly ordered a newspaper not to publish a story on an anti-coup group, according to a Vice-President of the Thai Journalist Association (TJA).</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On Tuesday 24 June, military officers reportedly visited the newsroom of a newspaper and instructed the editorial staff not to report the establishment of Free Thais for Human Rights and Democracy (FTHD), an anti-coup group in exile. </div></div>

<div>The professional membership of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand is deeply concerned by the detention of journalists by the new military authorities in Thailand, following the imposition of martial law on Tuesday and a full coup d’etat on Thursday.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Thanapol Eawsakul, the editor of Same Sky magazine, was arrested following an anti-coup protest on Friday. </div>

<div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The National Peace and Order Maintenance Council (NPOMC), a special security body led by coup maker Army Chief Prayuth Chan-ocha, announced several orders early on Friday morning which aim at limiting the freedom of expression and information of Thai citizens.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>These measures were added after many TV channels and radio stations were forced to stop broadcasting their own programmes and only relay signals from the army’s TV and radio stations. </div></div>

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