<p>Police officers confiscated campaign flyers against the junta-sponsored draft constitution from an academic and attempted to take her to a police station.</p> <p>At around 4 pm on Monday, 25 April 2016, police officers confiscated flyers titled ‘7 Reasons Not to Accept the Draft Constitution’ from Bencharat Sae-Chua, a political scientist teaching at Mahidol University, at a forum on the double questions on the draft constitution at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok.</p>

<p>The deputy head of the junta has urged police officers to increase their surveillance of social media as the public referendum on the controversial junta-sponsored draft constitution is drawing near.</p>

<p>The Military Court has released embattled Pheu Thai Party politician Watana Muangsook.</p> <p>The Military Court of Bangkok at around 5:40 pm on Thursday, 21 April 2016, released on 80,000 baht bail Watana Muangsook, 59, a politician from the Pheu Thai Party who was detained by the military for so-called attitude adjustment, a period of detention with lectures forced upon political dissidents by the junta.</p> <p>He will be released after being transferred to Bangkok Remand Prison on Thursday evening.</p>

<p>The Thai junta leader told the media that anyone campaigning about the draft constitution faces 10 years imprisonment once the Referendum Bill is enacted.</p> <p>Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, the junta leader and Prime Minister, at the Government House, Bangkok, on Tuesday, 19 April 2016, told the media that people who participate in campaigns either to accept or not accept the latest draft constitution may face up to 10 years’ imprisonment under the Referendum Bill. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</p>

<p dir="ltr">Police released anti-junta activists without charges after detaining them for gathering in support for a detained Pheu Thai Party politician.</p> <p>At 8:30 pm on Tuesday, 19 April 2016, police officers of Phayathai Police Station released Anon Nampa of Resistant Citizen Group, Sirawit Serithiwat from New Democracy Movement (NDM), Aramis Akahad and Wannakit Chatsuwan, four well known anti-junta activists.</p>

<p>The Thai military has prohibited a seminar on the controversial draft constitution in the northern province of Chiang Mai as the public referendum on the draft is drawing near. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="http://www.matichon.co.th/news/92664">Matichon Online reported</a>&nbsp;on Saturday, 2 April 2016, that Sunai Phasuk, a coordinator of Human Rights Watch (HRW), tweeted on his Twitter account that military officers from Kawila Military Camp in Chiang Mai ordered the cancellation of a seminar on ‘Reading the Constitution as Literature and Art’.</p>

<p>The Thai military have summoned 2 journalists in the northern province of Chiang Mai for a discussion over a news report about a red bowl inscribed with Thai new year greetings from former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.</p>

<p>The Thai junta has prohibited a well-known anti-junta journalist of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.khaosodenglish.com/">Khaosod English News&nbsp;</a>from attending a conference on World Press Freedom Day in Finland. &nbsp;</p> <p>Pravit Rojanaphruk, 48, a well-known anti-junta journalist from Khaosod English, on Wednesday morning, 30 March 2016, posted a message on his Facebook profile that the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) had prohibited him from attending a conference on World Press Freedom Day on 3 May, to be held in Finland.</p>

<p>Thai military summoned a villager in the northern province of Chiang Mai for posting a picture of a red bowl with the signature of the controversial former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on it and accused her of sedition.</p>

<p>The Thai military have informed a former politician from the Pheu Thai party that he will be taken in for an attitude adjustment session over remarks against the junta leader. &nbsp;</p> <p><a href="http://www.matichon.co.th/news/83397">Matichon Online&nbsp;</a>reported on Friday, 25 March 2016, that Worachai Hema, former Member of Parliament for Samut Prakan Province from the Pheu Thai Party, told media that military officers had informed him that they will take him for a so-called attitude adjustment session.</p>

<p dir="ltr">Military freed an anti-junta facebook administrator after detaining him incommunicado for seven days.</p> <p>According to Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR), the family of Sarawut Bamrungkittikhun, the administrator of the Facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/issuesopen">‘Poet Praden’ (Open Issues)</a>, who was abducted by military officers last week, reported that Sarawut was released from the 45th Army Division in southern province of Surat Thani at 8 am on Wednesday, 16 March 2016.</p>

<p><a href="http://hrw.pr-optout.com/Tracking.aspx?Data=HHL%3d8-32%3d9-%3eLCE593719%26SDG%3c90%3a.&amp;RE=MC&amp;RI=4432086&amp;Preview=False&amp;DistributionActionID=95605&amp;Action=Follow+Link">Thai</a>&nbsp;authorities should immediately disclose the whereabouts of an outspoken critic of the government who has not been heard from since his arrest on March 9, 2016, Human Rights Watch said today.</p>