<div> <div>A public prosecutor has dismissed charges against 14 villagers in Phayao who were prosecuted for violating the NCPO’s ban on public protests. Before the case was dropped, the villagers faced repeated intimidation by the local authorities.</div> <div> </div> <div>Thai Lawyers for Human Rights reported on 8 June that in late May a public prosecutor in Phayao Province decided not to indict 14 supporters of the civil rights march We Walk. The police have asked them to sign a document to this effect at Phu Sang Police Station. </div></div>

<div> <div>Citing an order from the military, a private university in Chiang Mai has called off a public seminar on the role of student movements in Thai politics.</div> <div> </div> <div>On 23 April 2018, Yamaruddin Songsiri, an anti-junta student activist, posted on Facebook that the military had ordered Phayao University to cancel the seminar on “the role of students in the country’s development.”</div> <div> </div> <div>The seminar, scheduled for 27 April, was planned by students of Phayao University’s School of Political and Social Science. </div></div>