<div>Thai constitutional drafters, under the military regime, is including regulations on ‘hate speech’ in the new constitutional draft for the first time in Thai law.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Kamnoon Sidhisaman, the spokesperson of the Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC), announced the results of the CDC meeting on freedom of expression that on top of mentioning vaguely that freedom of expression is guaranteed with the limitations of respect towards the rights of others, the committee has included ‘hate speech’ into the new draft constitution.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Kamnoon said </div>

<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8f27d0e6-e683-9158-0bc6-428ab77f92a2">After being attacked by Thai ultra-royalists who who resented the UNHCR for the alleged role in givingถ a lese majeste suspect refugee status, the Thailand’s branch of UNHCR closed down its facebook fan page.</span></p>

<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6093bf42-e25f-1067-199b-9b9e5cd001ae">A Thai shopping mall operator embraced the imposition of the martial law after the May 2014 coup d’état, saying that there is no need to worry about political rallies to obstruct the business.</span></p>

<div>After the media reported that the UNHCR had granted a high-profile lèse majesté suspect refugee status, Thai royalists fiercely attacked the UNHCR on its Thai Facebook page, saying they would stop funding the organization and threatening to harass its funding officers.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Thai royalists threatened to withdraw monthly donations to the UN refugee agency in Thailand over the agency’s role in giving refugee status to a redshirt political activist Ekapop L., (aka. </div>

<div></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <p>The NCPO claims to be reclaiming forest land from investors, but the poor continue to suffer. Junta policy introduced under martial law destroys livelihoods of thousands of forest inhabitants.</p>

<div>Thai police on Wednesday said the they had arrested a man who allegedly defamed the monarchy on Facebook.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The police accused Pongsak S., of offences under Article 112 or the lese majeste law and Article 14 of the Computer Crime Act (importing of illegal&nbsp;<span>content into a the computer system.)</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div> <div>Pongsak was on the list of 17 people summoned by the junta on 9 June 2014. </div></div>

<p>The Thai military government has set its eye on issuing a new law on internet security and amending the notorious 2007 Computer Crime Act (CCA). &nbsp;</p>

<p><a href="http://www.khaosodenglish.com/">Khaosod English</a>:&nbsp;<span>&nbsp;The top adviser to His Majesty the King has praised the 2014 military coup as a necessary action that saved Thailand from chaos.</span></p>

<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ac8a56d1-7c02-3ee6-0ad5-4615bf63fa79">Thailand’s junta leader threw a banana peel at a cameraman’s head after getting annoyed at being asked to face the camera too many times.</span></p>

<div><span>Prachatai’s Thaweeporn Kummetha discussed the situation with Sam Zarifi, Regional Director, Asia and Oceania, of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) about the human rights situation after the military coup d’état in Thailand.</span></div> <p></p>

<p id="E67" qowt-divtype="para" qowt-eid="E67"><span id="E68" qowt-eid="E68">12 civil society organisations based in Thailand’s Northeast ha</span><span id="E69" qowt-eid="E69">ve</span><span id="E70" qowt-eid="E70"> condemned the junta’s suppr</span><span id="E71" qowt-eid="E71">ession of freedom of expression</span><span id="E72" qowt-eid="E72">, stating that national reform is only </span><span id="E74" qowt-eid="E74">a</span> <span id="E76" qowt-eid="E76">pretence</span> <span id="E79" qowt-eid="E79">to enable</span><span id="E80" qowt-eid="E80"> the junta </span></p>

<p dir="ltr"><span>Six months after Thailand’s martial law is imposed discontent stirs across diverse factions.</span></p> <p></p>