<p>Prachatai invites you to look at an explanation of what is happening in Thai society, what Thai media should do in an age when the prerogative of setting the agenda for what the public learns about is slipping through our fingers, how other countries deal with incitement, and what kind of communication could stop violence.</p>

<p>Piyabutr Saengkanokkul, Secretary-General of the Future Forward Party (FFP), went to the Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD) on April 17 to acknowledge allegations by the NCPO&rsquo;s legal representative of contempt of court and spreading false information online.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Col Burin Thongprapai, the NCPO&rsquo;s legal officer, has filed sedition charges against Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, leader of the Future Forward Party (FFP). Meanwhile, FFP Secretary-General Piyabutr Saengkanokkul has also received a summons to report as a witness in the case on the FFP statement on the dissolution of the Thai Raksa Chart Party (TRC).&nbsp;</p>

<p>On 8 March, Col Burin Thongprapai, the NCPO&rsquo;s legal officer, filed a complaint with the Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD) against the website administrator and other relevant personnel of the Future Forward Party (FFP) for contempt of court.</p>

<div><em>In the past week, news broke that Piyabutr Saengkanokkul, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, Thammasat University and a member of Nitirat (a group of Thammasat law professors who offer academic legal advice to society), would take a step back from academia and into politics by founding a new political party with Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit. </em></div>

<p>Well-known pro-democracy activists and an academic have concluded that in addition to reforming its military, Thailand needs to reform its judicial institutions as well to get out of the endless cycle of coups d’état.</p> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Resistantcitizen/posts/1024747320901744">Resistant Citizen</a>, an anti-junta activist group, on Monday, 22 February 2016, organised a well-attended public seminar on Judicial Institutions under Special Circumstances at Thammasat University, Tha Prachan Campus, Bangkok.</p>

<p>The Thai authorities have put 13 of the 14 anti-junta activists into separate prison cells, a decision which the activists in detention have protested, saying that it has political implications.</p> <p>On Thursday, 2 June 2015, Bangkok Remand Prison separated the 13 male anti-junta activists in custody into groups of 2-3 and detained them in different compounds of the prison.</p>

<p>Bangkok’s Military Court dismissed a petition questioning its jurisdiction, submitted by Worachet Pakeerut, a prominent law academic and core member of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.prachatai.org/english/category/nitirat">Nitirat group</a>, who was charged with failing to report to the junta. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>According to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/1422797047994795/photos/a.1422801184661048.1073741828.1422797047994795/1540103046264194/?type=1">Free Thai Legal Aid (FTLA)</a>, the Military Court of Bangkok on Monday morning rejected the petition submitted by Worachet.</p>

<p>On 2 May, two Thammasat lecturers testified as defence witnesses in the l&egrave;se majest&eacute; trial of Somyot Prueksakasemsuk, former editor of Voice of Taksin magazine.</p>

<p>Nitirat, a group of law academics at Thammasat University, has announced two activities to be held in January next year to campaign for amendments to Article 112 and the nullification of the 2006 coup&rsquo;s legal effects, as has been proposed to the public by the group.</p>