<p>The Criminal Court is likely to deliver its ruling by the end of this year on a case in which a stockbroker has been prosecuted for posting comments on Same Sky or <a href="http://prachatai.com/english/search/node/fah diew kan">Fah Diew Kan</a> webboard in 2009.</p>

<p>A local civic group dubbed “Patani Forum” has proposed that the Thai Buddhist state seriously consider accommodating greater Malayu Muslim narratives about “self-determination” since this quest will not go away and neither will the violence in the Deep South.</p>

<p>On 26 Nov, during a court inquest into the death of Mana Ajran, another casualty resulting from the crackdown on red shirts in April and May 2010, a forensic doctor told the court that he was killed by a high velocity bullet which destroyed his brain. </p>

<p>On 26 Nov, the Criminal Court ruled that the death of <a href="http://prachatai.com/english/category/charnnarong-polsrila">Charnnarong Polsrila</a> had been caused by security officers during the crackdown on red shirts in May 2010.</p>

<p>On 22 Nov, Roi Et Provincial Court sentenced Uthai (family name withheld) to three years in prison for lèse majesté, but suspended the jail term for two years.</p>

<p>Dear President Obama,</p> <p>On behalf of The Network of Family Members and People Affected by the Article 112 (called the 112 Family Network) and other joint organizations, I would like to welcome you to Thailand and would like to hand this letter to you and ask you to support us to raise our concerns to Thai government.</p>

<p>The police have decided to prosecute <a href="http://www.prachatai.com/english/category/somsak-jeamteerasakul">Somsak Jeamteerasakul</a>, a historian at Thammasat University, for lèse majesté, after the army lodged a <a href="http://www.prachatai.com/english/node/2510">complaint</a> against him over a year ago.</p>

<p>Book launch and talk on "Autonomy and Ethnic Conflict in South and Southeast Asia" by Dr.Rajat Ganguly, Senior lecturer, Security studies &amp; Politics and International studies, Murdoch University, Australia, on Nov 13 at the Faculty of Political Science, Thammasat University.</p>

<p>See video clips of a public forum on “Government and Politics in Nepal and Bhutan” organized by the Institute of Security and International Studies (ISIS) at Chulalongkorn University on 6 Nov.&nbsp; Guest speakers include Dr. Nishchal N. Pandey, Director, Centre for South Asian Studies, Kathmandu, Nepal and Tashi Dorji, Editor and Managing Director, Business Bhutan, Thimphu, Bhutan.</p>

<p>A bill proposed by academics and citizens to change Article 112 of the Criminal Code has been dismissed by the Speaker of Parliament.</p>

<p>On 31 October 2012, Thailand’s Criminal Court in Bangkok dismissed charges against Mr. Surapak P., a defendant facing charges under the lèse majesté law (Article 112) and the Computer-related Crime Act 2007. It is very rare for a defendant to be able to convince the Court that the evidence used against him could have been fabricated. Prior to this, only one lèse majesté defendant, “<a href="http://prachatai.com/english/search/node/bento">Bento</a>”, was acquitted for similar reasons by arguing that the phone line used to access the internet was not registered in her name.</p>

<p>On 31 Oct, the Criminal Court acquitted <a href="http://prachatai.com/english/category/suraphak">Suraphak Phuchaisang</a> of lèse majesté charges, and released a summary version of the verdict to reporters.&nbsp; Here is a translation of the official summary verdict:</p>