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<div>The Criminal Court will start hearing two lese majeste cases this Wednesday and in mid August, according to <a href="http://freedom.ilaw.or.th/en">iLaw</a>, an Internet-based human rights advocacy group. </div>
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<div>In the first case, a man in his twenties, was arrested and charged with lese majeste and offences under the Computer Crime Act.
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<div>A Thai man took a video clip of his visit to the house of Chatwadee Amornpat aka “Rose”, who has publicly stated that she is against the Thai monarchy. The man flashed a gun and spray painted the Thai national flag on the front door. </div>
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<div>The clip begins with the man, who calls himself “DJ Ken”, saying that today he was going to take a ride somewhere. When he arrived at the door of Number 18 in a suburb of London, supposedly the house of Rose, he parked his car and said “I also have a souvenir for Rose”.
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<div>The police from northeastern Roi-Et Province on Friday morning charged Sombat Boonngam-anong with lèse majesté. </div>
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<div>The charges were filed by Wiput Sukprasert, a yellow-shirt businessman, in January 2014 in Roi-Et.
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<div>Sombat Boonngamanong, a prominent red-shirt figure, on Friday morning said he wants to be part of the reconciliation process, asking his followers to be more subtle when showing their opposition to the junta.</div>
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<div>About a hundred people visited the red-shirt leader at the Bangkok Remand Prison at 11 am on Friday.
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<div>The coup maker Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha expressed concerns over seminars held in overseas universities that they may disseminate “inappropriate views” on the Thai monarchy and may violate the notorious lese majeste law. </div>
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<div>Gen Prayuth spoke on Wednesday at the Thai Army Club to more than 20 Thai ambassadors from 18 countries. </div>
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<div>The general urged the Thai ambassadors not to stay silence, but take actions against people who commit lese majeste oversea.
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<div>Two men were charged with lèse majesté after being detained for seven days by the military. The court denied their bail requests. </div>
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<div>On Tuesday, police charged Chaleaw J. and Kathawut B. under Article 112 of the Criminal Code or the lèse majesté law. They were denied bail and sent to Bangkok Remand Prison. </div>
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<div>They were among 28 people summoned by the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) under <a href="http://prachatai.org/english/node/4097">order no. 44</a>, issued on June 1.
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<div>The police arrested a taxi driver on Monday and charged him with lèse majesté after a passenger filed a police complaint over their conversation on inequality in Thai society. </div>
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<div>The passenger, reportedly a university lecturer, recorded the conversation between them in January on his mobile phone and submitted it to the police as evidence. </div>
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<div>The 43-year-old taxi driver is now detained at the Phaya Thai police station. </div>
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<div>The military released Suthachai Yimprasert, a red-shirt history lecturer at Chulalongkorn University, at about 5 pm, after he reported to the military junta along with ten other activists on Tuesday morning.</div>
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<div>He was released on condition that he will not join any anti-coup activity and not write about the lèse majesté law. </div>
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<div>Suthachai said he did not about the fate of the others. </div>
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<div>Tewarit Maneechay, a Prachatai journalist who was summoned by the same order as Surachai, has not be
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