<p>The Thai junta leader said the government will try to cooperate with other countries to extradite lèse majesté suspects back to Thailand to prevent them from undermining the regime from overseas. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p id="E26" qowt-divtype="para" qowt-eid="E26"><span id="E27" qowt-eid="E27">Thailand’s leading Internet freedom advocacy group has condemned the Thai authorit</span><span id="E28" qowt-eid="E28">ies</span><span id="E29" qowt-eid="E29"> for allowing Internet Service Providers (ISP</span><span id="E30" qowt-eid="E30">s</span><span id="E31" qowt-eid="E31">) to block </span><span id="E32" qowt-eid="E32">lèse majesté</span><span id="E33" qowt-eid="E33"> and other websites viewed as threats to national security the moment they see one. &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>

<p>The Thai authorities have given power to all internet service providers (ISPs) to block lèse majesté websites using their own judgement while urging all ISPs and people to report online lèse majesté content to the authorities as soon as they find any. &nbsp;</p>

<div><span>Two theatre activists on Monday pleaded guilty to lese majeste charges for taking parts in the stage play “The Wolf Bride”.</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Patiwat S. and Pornthip M. pleaded guilty during the deposition hearing at Ratchada Criminal Court on Monday afternoon.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div> <div>The defendants asked the court to suspend the jail terms because they have never committed crimes, are still young and one of them is studying in a university. The jail terms will likely to damage their future. </div></div>

<div>The Thai authorities have revealed that they have invited representatives of Facebook in Thailand to discuss measures to prevent content defaming the Thai King on Facebook and how to have them prosecuted.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Thakorn Tantasith, Secretary-General of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC), told reporters on Sunday that NBTC has invited the Thailand representatives of the social network company to a talk on Monday.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Thakorn said he wants Facebook head office to respect Thailand’s Article 112, or the lèse majesté law </div>

<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-98c232f0-93c1-f1c7-3880-b4d971c4f930">Google did not comply with any of the Thai authorities’ requests to remove YouTube videos deemed insulting to the Thai monarchy, or to reveal user data, according to the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/">latest Google Transparency Report</a>, which is based on data from July to December 2013.</p>

<p><span>On Monday, 29 December 2014, at 9 am in the Criminal Court on Ratchadaphisek Road in Bangkok, Patiwat Saraiyaem and Pornthip Munkhong will appear before the court for the first time since being formally charged on 25 October 2014.</span></p>

<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fc96c6da-847b-9784-8f42-5f360435674c">Thai police have arrested a businessman for posting lèse majesté messages on his Facebook account.</span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fc96c6da-847b-9784-8f42-5f360435674c">The man, whose given name begins with T and surname with S, was accused of using two Facebook accounts under &nbsp;“Yai Daengdueat” (</span>ใหญ่ แดงเดือด) to post three messages deemed to defame the King, according to the police custody petition submitted to the military court on Thursday. &nbsp;</p>

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<div> <div>Thai police summoned a Thammasat University history lecturer and two student activists to testify on the lèse majesté accusation against the renowned royalist and lèse majesté law critic Sulak Sivaraksa in relation to Sulak’s speech on an ancient king, saying the use of lèse majesté in Thailand is an obstacle to Thai history lessons.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Phiphat Krachaechan, a history lecturer at Thammasat University, on Wednesday revealed to Prachatai that he had refused to cooperate with the police in testifying on the lèse majesté complaint against Sulak after the police sum </div></div>

<div> <p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b3e97379-7ab4-2bb0-f753-e2061c933b44">The pro-establishment Democrat Party submitted lèse majesté and defamation complaints against a redshirt wearing black around the King’s birthday and pressed the authorities to take action against a Pheu Thai politician’s son accused of lèse majesté.</span></p> </div>

<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5faddcb9-7a3a-91d1-b301-3434a8659db7">The Thai authorities revealed that they can access all communications made by 33 million Thai users of the popular chat application, saying it specifically focuses on lèse majesté messages. &nbsp;</span></p> <p></p>