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Rajabhakti Park activists aim to sabotage government: Thai junta spokesman
Submitted by editor2 on Mon, 21/12/2015
The Thai juntaтАЩs spokesman pointed out that activists demanding Rajabhakti Park probe aim to sabotage and discredit the government.
According to Thai News Agency, Col Winthai Suvaree, the spokesperson of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), told media on Saturday, 19 December 2015, that some of the activists demanding Rajabhakti Park probe repeatedly violated NCPOтАЩs orders.
He mentioned that some of the activists have been engaged in political demonstrations since February 2015 and repeatedly violated the NCPOтАЩs Order 3/2015, which prohibits political gathering of five or more persons.... (read more).... http://prachatai.org/english/node/5714
18 December 2015
Online Freedom to Slide Further, Online Activists Predict
By Sasiwan Mokkhasen
Staff Reporter
BANGKOK тАФ A single screenshot of a Facebook message led to the accusation. The accusation led to a charge of defaming the monarchy and a year, so far, in jail. Later this month, human rights lawyer Sasinan Thamnithinan said, a military tribunal will decide her client's guilt not from any material evidence but a jailhouse confession which became the entire case against him..... (read more).... http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.ph ... ypecate=06
Poll finds 99% happy with government
December 23, 2015
The government claimed Tuesday that 99.3% of people in a poll were satisfied with its performance. The announcement came the day before the government is... (read more )....
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/politic ... government.
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Reuters
23 December 2015
Junta Reaffirms Will Hand Back Power in BReuters
By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Panarat Thepgumpanat
BANGKOK тАФ Junta chairman Prayuth Chan-ocha gave a sweeping year-end speech today in which he reiterated that the junta will hand back power in 2017 and that it was entering "phase two" of its reform plan. ANGKOK тАФ Junta chairman Prayuth Chan-ocha gave a sweeping year-end speech today in which he reiterated that the junta will hand back power in 2017 and that it was entering "phase two" of its reform plan. .... (read more )...http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.ph ... 6§ion=.
Prawit flags crackdown on 'influential people'
Published: 23/12/2015
Writer: Wassana Nanuam
Gen Prawit Wongsuwon outlines his accomplishments as deputy prime minister in the first year of the Prayut military government on Wednesday.(Photo by Thanarak Khunton)
Gen Prawit Wongsuwon, the deputy prime minister in charge of security affairs, said he has received a list of "influential people" with the potential to cause trouble in the country, and a crackdown on them is forthcoming.
He revealed the list in a speech at Government House on Wednesday to outlinr his "accomplishments" during the past year in the government led by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha.
Gen Prawit said the list of influential people was compiled over two months by police and defence intelligence units in cooperation with the Interior Ministry, on the instructions of the prime minister.
As soon as he receives approval from the prime minister he will despatch teams of officials from three agencies to verify details of the people on the list .....(more)...http://m.bangkokpost.com/news/804208?re ... hDfImopQTh
Two academics remain defiant against juntaтАЩs political gathering ban
Submitted by editor2 on Thu, 24/12/2015
Two of the six academics charged with violating the juntaтАЩs ban on political gatherings by organising a public talk remain defiant at the risk of receiving jail terms, saying that the junta order can longer be enacted.
Attachak Sattayanurak and Somchai Preechasinlapakun, history and law lecturers from Chiang Mai University, at 2 pm on Thursday, 24 December 2015, submitted a document on allegations against them to Chang Puak Police Station in Mueang District of the northern province of Chiang Mai.
Two are among six lecturers charged under the juntaтАЩs National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) Order No. 3/2015, banning political gatherings of five or more persons, for participating in the reading of a statement titled тАШuniversities are not military barracksтАЩ calling for academic freedom on 31 October 2015.... (read more )...http://prachatai.org/english/node/5730
JuntaтАЩs phase 2 crackdown
12-26-2015
The military junta has held absolute power for 19 months. It has impunity for all it does, ranging from repression to murder and corruption.
During its time in power, the best data available, which is from iLaw, says that up to the end of November, the junta has summoned or тАЬvisitedтАЭ 798 persons, many of them several times. It has arrested at least 501 and charged 56 with lese majeste and 27 with sedition. 152 have been before military courts.
PPT considers all of these to be underestimates as the military dictatorship does not need to provide information on its repression..... (read more).... https://thaipoliticalprisoners.wordpres ... crackdown/
December 26, 2015
Tell The World That the Junta is 99% Popular
By Pravit Rojanaphruk
Senior Staff Writer
When reading that a poll claims the military regime enjoys 99.3-per-cent popularity, this writer first thought it was a sick joke - apparently it wasnтАЩt, but something more troubling.
тАЬPoll finds 99% happy with govtтАЭ read the front-page headline of the Bangkok Post on Wednesday. If this is to be believed, the regime of junta chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha must surely be the most popular in modern Thai history.
Looking closer, one sees that the pollster is actually a state organ, the National Statistical Office, which works under the military regime of General Prayuth who claims absolute power under Article 44 of his own military provisional charter.
Put aside the possible conflict of interests by the pollster and its master for a second and consider these questions:..... (read more ).....http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.ph ... 1451118162