The Appeal Court ruled yesterday (17 October) not to lift the ban on Rap Against Dictatorship (RAD)’s song “Reform,” claiming that the song incites people to express their opinion without respect for the law and may upset royalists.

<p>The Nakhon Si Thammarat Provincial Court has dismissed a defamation charge filed against art critic Pearamon Tulavardhana by Chiang Mai University lecturer Pongsiri Kiddee, who <a href="https://prachatai.com/english/node/9491">sued Pearamon after she wrote an article criticizing an exhibition featuring his work</a>.&nbsp;</p>

<p>An artists&rsquo; and academics&rsquo; network has launched a campaign calling for support for freedom of expression in art and academia, after art critic Pearamon Tulavardhana was sued for defamation by a Chiang Mai University lecturer whose work was part of an exhibition she criticized.</p>

<p>An art exhibition about enforced disappearance has been postponed indefinitely as the venue&#39;s owner said they were &#39;uncomfortable&#39; after being contacted by the police.</p>

<p>A Chiang Mai tattoo artist has been sentenced to 2 years in prison and a fine of 60,000 baht for destruction of public property after he drew a number of political graffiti on traffic signs and light poles across Chiang Mai city.</p>

<p>A digital artist was arrested at her home on Thursday&nbsp;(30 June) on a royal defamation charge, after charges were filed against her for a portrait of King Vajiralongkorn published on Instagram in September 2021.</p>

<p>On Thursday night (18 November), police from Thonglor Police Station raided a live painting event organized by the Cross-cultural Foundation (CrCF) at WTF Gallery &amp; Cafe and ordered them to erase the painting claiming that it is &ldquo;insulting.&rdquo;</p>

<p>Prachatai spoke to Srisamorn Soffer, primary school teacher and children&rsquo;s book writer, who started the &ldquo;Dream of Hope Tales&rdquo; project and who wrote most of the poems in the series, about how the project began, the importance of the stories, and young people&rsquo;s freedom to read.</p>

<p>The Chiang Mai Administrative Court ruled in favour of students from the Media Arts and Design Department, Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University, who <a href="https://prachatai.com/english/node/9505">filed for a temporary injunction</a> on 18 October after the University administration prohibited them from showing their final theses in the University Art Centre because some pieces dealt with social and political themes.</p>

<p>Chiang Mai University students petitioned the Chiang Mai University Council, the House Committee on Legal Affairs, Justice, and Human Rights, and the House Committee on Education to have university principle Dr Niwet Nantajit and Faculty of Fine Arts dean Asawinee Wanjing removed from office, after faculty and university administration prohibited students from exhibiting their theses in the University Art Centre as some pieces deal with social and political themes.</p>

<p>Students from the Media Arts and Design Department, Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University, filed a lawsuit with the Chiang Mai Administrative Court on Monday (18 October) for a temporary injunction after the University administration prohibited them from showing their final theses in the University Art Centre because some pieces deal with social and political themes.</p>

<p>Students from the Media Arts and Design Department, Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University, took over the University Art Centre on Saturday (16 October), after the Faculty and the university administration prohibited them from showing their final theses as some pieces deal with social and political themes.</p>