<div>&nbsp;</div> <div> <div>The military has again attempted to censor the anti-establishment Same Sky (Fah Deaw Kan in Thai) publishing house by banning its t-shirts, one of which has the image of a dinosaur, with possible charges of lèse majesté. </div></div>

<p>The Military Court rejected the bail request of a man who wrote messages mainly criticizing the junta and allegedly making reference to the king in a shopping mall’s restrooms.</p> <p>On Monday, the Military Court refused to grant 2.5 million baht bail to Opas C., a 67 year-old man charged with lèse majesté after writing messages criticizing the junta and the Democrat Party and allegedly making reference to HM the King. The Court reasoned that the charges are serious and they could not grant bail because of the flight risk. &nbsp;</p>

<div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Two men have filed a lèse majesté complaint against Sulak Sivaraksa, a renowned royalist and lèse majesté critic, for a public speech about King Naresuan, who ruled the Ayutthaya Kingdom 400 years ago.</div> <p></p>

<div> <div>The military arrested and filed a lèse majesté charge against a 67-year-old man for writing messages in a shopping mall’s restrooms. The messages mainly criticized the junta and Article 112, or the lèse majesté law, and allegedly made reference to the King. He is likely to be tried in a military court&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The messages mainly criticized the junta leader Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha and the Democrat government which ruled the country from 2011 to 2013. They condemned the two governments for abusing Article 112. </div></div>

<p dir="ltr"><em>Please read the updated report <a href="http://prachatai.org/english/node/4415">here</a></em></p> <p dir="ltr">The military arrested and filed a lese majeste charge against a 67-year-old man for writing messages deemed defaming the monarchy in a shopping mall’s restrooms.</p> <p>Opas C., was captured by the mall’s employee on Wednesday and was later arrested by the military.</p> <p>On Friday, the military brought him to the crime suppression unit and filed a charge under Article 112, or the lese majeste law, against him. He confessed that he wrote the message.</p>

<div> <div>Jaran Ditapichai, red-shirt leader and veteran political activist, has been charged with lèse majesté in connection with the play ‘The Wolf Bride’. </div></div>

<div>&nbsp;</div> <div> <div>The Thai police on Tuesday said they intend to speed up investigation of lèse majesté cases, along with other cases related to national security.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Pol Lt Gen Chakthip Chaijinda, Acting Deputy National Police Chief, told media on Tuesday that from 2011-2014, there were 93 cases related to Article 112, or the lèse majesté law, pending with the police. The National Police have resolved on a policy to complete 50 per cent of the Article 112 cases so that only about 46 cases are left by end of this year. </div></div>

<div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The Criminal Court on Monday ruled to continue the detention of two lèse majesté suspects and denied a bail request from one suspect.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Ratchada Criminal Court in Bangkok dismissed a bail request by Tanet, a lèse majesté suspect whose surname is withheld due to privacy concerns, whose friends put up 200,000 baht in cash as security. </div></div>

<p>The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned about the ongoing detention without charge of Patiwat (last name withheld) and Pornthip (last name withheld), who are being held in relation to a complaint filed against them for alleged violation of Article 112 of the Criminal Code in Thailand. Patiwat, age 23, a fifth year student in the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts at Khon Kaen University, was arrested on 14 August 2014 in Khon Kaen province and is being held in the Bangkok Remand Prison.</p>

<div>&nbsp;</div> <div>A lèse majesté complaint has been filed against controversial former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and those involved with the Thai translation of&nbsp;<em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Conversations-Thaksin-Deliverance-Thailands-Populist/dp/9814328685">Conversation with Thaksin</a></em>, a one-sided account of Thai politics from Thaksin as interviewed by American journalist Tom Plate, <a> </a></div>

<div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The police on Friday arrested a man for lèse majesté at a house in central Samut Prakan Province,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.manager.co.th/Crime/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=9570000114022">ASTV-Manager</a> Online reported. </div>

<div>&nbsp;</div> <div>A court in Chiang Mai decided on Wednesday to halt hearings in the case of a red-shirt supporter who faces a lèse majesté charge for throwing royal flags into the river, because the defendant suffered a stroke,<a href="http://freedom.ilaw.or.th/en/case/353#detail"> iLaw</a>&nbsp;has reported.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On 19 May 2010, Kritsada S., a food vendor, joined a red-shirt demonstration in Chiang Mai’s Muang District. The demonstration was held in parallel with the mass street protests at Bangkok’s Ratchaprasong intersection. </div>