<p>The police have released a politician known for his anti-junta stand, who is facing a sedition charge over his Facebook posts. &nbsp;</p> <p>On 1 August 2017, Watana Muangsook, a politician from the Pheu Thai Party, reported to the Technology Crime Suppression Division after he was accused of violating Article 116 of the Criminal Code, the sedition law.</p>

<p>The Commission on Jurisdiction of Courts&nbsp; has decided that a lèse majesté suspect accused of mocking the late King’s favourite dog will be tried in a military court.</p> <p>On 26 June 2017, the Military Court of Bangkok read&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tlhr2014.com/th/?p=4510">the verdict of the Commission on Jurisdiction of Courts</a>&nbsp;on the case against Thanakorn S., a 27-year-old man from Samut Prakan Province.</p>

<p>Three years after the last coup d’état, human rights lawyers have argued that the junta could not hold power without the support of the country’s judicial institutions.</p> <p>Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) on 27 May 2017 released&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tlhr2014.com/th/?p=4307">a report</a>&nbsp;about the relationship between the military government and judicial institutions.</p>

<p>The Criminal Court has refused to release on bail a human rights lawyer facing up to 50 years in prison for royal defamation and sedition.</p> <p>The Criminal Court on Ratchadaphisek Rd., Bangkok, on 11 May 2017, renewed the detention period for Prawet Praphanukul, a human rights lawyer accused of violating Articles 112 and 116 of the Criminal Code, the lèse majesté law and the sedition law.</p>

<p dir="ltr">A military court has sentenced to jail an activist demanding a probe into the Rajabhakti Park corruption allegations.</p> <p>On 25 January 2017, the Military Court of Bangkok <a href="http://www.tlhr2014.com/th/?p=3366">handed out 8 months of imprisonment </a>to Thanet Anantawong for defying the junta’s ban on political gatherings of five or more persons.</p> <p>The military court judges, however, halved the jail term to four months after Thanet pleaded guilty.</p>

<p dir="ltr">A provincial court has concluded that Bangkok’s military court has the jurisdiction to try a lèse majesté suspect accused of mocking the late King’s favourite dog.</p>

<p dir="ltr">The police have accused an embattled human rights lawyer of sedition and violation of the junta’s political gathering ban, for observing a pro-democracy protest.</p> <p>Police from Samranrat Police Station issued a summon order for Sirikan Charoensiri, a lawyer from the Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR), to report to the station on 27 September 2016,<a href="http://www.tlhr2014.com/th/?p=2252"> the TLHR reported</a>. &nbsp;</p>

<p dir="ltr">The Chiang Mai military court has released members of a political clan accused of committing crimes against the state by distributing letters criticising the junta-sponsored draft constitution.</p>

<p dir="ltr">A military prosecutor has officially charged eight people allegedly involved in a Facebook page mocking the Thai junta leader for crimes against the state.</p> <p dir="ltr">The Military Judge Advocate General’s Office on Tuesday, 23 August 2016 indicted <a href="http://prachatai.org/english/category/the-eight-abducted-junta-critics">eight people</a> accused of being administrators of a parody Facebook page mocking the junta leader called ‘We Love General Prayut’ of Article 116 of the Criminal Code, the sedition law.</p>

<p dir="ltr">The military court has denied bail for members of a Chiang Mai political clan accused of committing crimes against the state in letters criticising the junta-sponsored draft constitution.</p>

<p>A Military Court in northern Thailand has detained 10 people, including a former Member of Parliament for Chiang Mai, accused of sedition over letters criticising the junta-sponsored draft constitution.</p> <p>The Chiang Mai Military Court on Thursday, 4 August 2016, granted the police permission to remand in custody Tassanee Buranupakorn, former Pheu Thai Party MP for Chiang Mai, Boonlert Buranupakorn, former chief of the Chiang Mai Provincial Administrative Organisation, Khachen Jiakkhajorn, mayor of Chang Phueak Subdistrict of the province.</p>

<p>A lawyer representing a former Member of Parliament for Chiang Mai was barred from listening to charges against his client who is accused of sedition over letters allegedly criticising the junta-sponsored draft charter</p>