<p>Villagers in Isaan facing land encroachment charges have vowed to fight for their rights to what they claim as their ancestral land.</p> <p>According to&nbsp;<a href="http://prachatai.org/journal/2017/07/72209">Tanintat Phukaew</a>, a citizen journalist, the Provincial Court of Surin Province on 21 July 2017 will read the verdict in a land encroachment case in which 31 villagers from Khok Chok forest community in Mueang District of Surin Province are accused of occupying 883 rai of public land.</p>

<p>The post-mortem examination in the death of a young soldier has concluded that he was beaten to death by other soldiers in a military camp in Isaan, northeastern Thailand. &nbsp;</p> <p>Surin Provincial Court on Tuesday, 26 July 2016, read out the autopsy report on the death of Corporal Krittikon Suthiraphan, 25, a soldier at Weerawat Yothin Army Camp in Surin.</p> <p>Krittikon died in a military prison in Weerawat Yothin Army Camp on 21 February 2016. He was imprisoned after he was accused of assisting other detainees in the military prison to flee.</p>