<p>The Ministry of Information and Communication Technology has told Internet Service Providers to deal with offending websites, saying if they fail to do so, the Ministry will close them.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The Criminal Court has agreed to a request by the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) to detain Nat Sattayapornpisut, 27, who has been charged under the 2007 Computer Crimes Act after he was found to have sent offensive clips to a blog called &lsquo;StopLeseMajeste&rsquo;.&nbsp;</p>

<p><span>The </span><span>Fah Diew Kan (Same Sky) publishing house website was shut down on the night of Jan 4 by its hosting server.</span></p>

<p><span>"We used the Computer Crime Act, because we didn't want to use a more serious law," said Pol Col Yanapol Yangyeun, Commander of the IT Crime Office of the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) under the Ministry of Justice, during a seminar on Thailand's relatively new computer crime law on Nov 8, 2007.</span></p>

<p>The internet user allegedly involved in a l&egrave;se majest&eacute; web-board thread posted on Prachatai discussion forum late last year met police for interrogation. He said he did not remember if he posted the comment and now the thread has been deleted.</p>

<p><span>Web-board posters &lsquo;Praya Pichai' and &lsquo;Ton Chan' appeared at Bangkok</span><span>'s Criminal Court on Friday Oct 12, and were told by the court that the prosecution had yet to proceed with the case.</span></p>

<p>A l&egrave;se majest&eacute; charge was filed with the Crime Suppression Division police against unidentified internet users who posted messages on the Prachatai web-board.</p>

<p><span>A well-known anti-coup activist </span><span>confirmed that he met arrested webmaster Praya Pichai while detained at the same cell in prison. Fellow members of the cyber community and human rights and free speech advocates are raising fund to bail the second woman who is still detained.</span></p>

<p>A woman detained under the Computer Crime Act was released after her family members bailed her out at the Criminal Court.&nbsp;</p>

<p>One webmaster and other user names dropped out of the Thai internet community at about the same time a rumour began to spread on Aug 24 that some web-board members had been arrested. The Financial Times newspaper reported in its Sept 1-2 weekend edition that two Thais had been arrested for posting offensive comments about the monarchy.</p>

<p>An arrested member of internet discussion forums has been released on bail today, his family members told Prachatai.</p>

<p>The second person reported to have been arrested under the new Computer Crime Act has been found detained at Bangkok Remand Prison, the same place where a 36-year-old programmer was held.&nbsp;</p>