<p>The Defence Minister has threatened to send a journalist from the Bangkok Post to an attitude adjustment session.</p>

<p>Soldiers last night were granted sweeping authority to conduct warrantless searches of homes, seize assets and detain civilians without charge.</p> <p>On the order of junta chief Prayuth Chan-ocha, a wide range of powers usually reserved for civilian police were bestowed to members of the military Tuesday night, ostensibly to carry out the junta’s policy of rooting out underworld influences and unduly “influential people” in the economy and society.</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>The Thai junta has proposed to turn attitude adjustment sessions into a special course for politicians while the junta leader said that politicians who do not understand the regime should not be politicians.</p> <p>Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, the junta leader and Prime Minister, on Monday, 28 March 2016, told the media at Government House that the so-called attitude adjustment sessions, coercive discussions forced upon political dissidents by the military, will become more standardised.</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>UN’s human rights office has stated that people must be able to participate in the drafting process of the new constitution and that the new constitution should not provide impunity for the military government.</p>

<p>After reserving six seats in the senate for military and police chiefs, the Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC) revealed that the junta will get to handpick the senate selection committee members.</p> <p>Meechai Ruchuphan, President of the CDC, on Thursday, 24 March 2016, told the media that the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) will get to screen candidates for the committee of nine persons who will be tasked with selecting all 250 senators.</p>

<p>Taking in some of the junta’s suggestions to amend the draft charter, the Constitution Drafting Committee has guaranteed seats for military chiefs in the senate.</p> <p><a href="http://www.matichon.co.th/news/79620">Matichon Online&nbsp;</a>reported that Norachit Sinhaseni, spokesperson of the junta-appointed Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC), announced at 4:10 pm on Tuesday, 22 March 2016, that the CDC has agreed with some of the recommendations from the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) on the 2016 draft constitution.</p>

<p dir="ltr">Lawyers, academics, and civil society groups have condemned the Thai junta for intervening in an election of the Lawyers Council of Thailand, saying that the junta has no legitimacy to do so.</p>

<p>Gen Prawit Wongsuwan, Defence Minister and deputy junta leader, defended the junta’s proposal to reserve seats for military chiefs in the Senate, saying that the plan will prevent coups d’état in the future. &nbsp;</p>

<p>The administrator of a Facebook page critical of the military regime is the subject of an online rumour that he has gone missing, but the Thai junta say that the authorities do not know his current fate. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<div>The Thai police have filed additional charges against a well-known anti-junta youth activist leader over his role in an anti-coup gathering in February 2015.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) <a href="https://tlhr2014.wordpress.com/2016/03/09/new_and_ratchapakdi_park/">reported</a> that on Tuesday, 8 March 2016, the Pathumwan Police Station in Bangkok filed additional charges against Thammasat University student activist <a href="http://www.prachatai.org/english/category/sirawit-serithiwat">Sirawit Serithiwat</a>, who was abducted and reportedly ill-treated w </div>