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Government corruption hit a new high under the post-coup National Council for Peace (NCPO) junta, according to a report released by the National Anti-Corruption Commission recently .

The Internet Law Reform Dialogue (iLaw) Group said the state of emergency, which went into effect early on Thursday, will give the premier unfettered right to exercise special powers as he was able to do in his capacity as chairman of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO).

The National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) filed documents with the official Facebook page of iLaw (Internet Law Reform Dialogue), a Thai human rights NGO, revealing the 10 members of a committee that recruited senators.

In a vote on Wednesday (December 4), the coalition government overturned the opposition's motion to set up an extraordinary committee to study impacts of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO)'s orders issued under Section 44 of the interim charter.

Future Forward Party leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit dismissed allegations that he was a traitor and criticised the country during a recent trip to Europe.

Human rights defenders on Wednesday demanded that the government offer remedial action for victims of the National Council for Peace and Order’s forest reclamation policy, after the problematic conservation policy was revoked by the latest NCPO order.

All 66 subordinate laws and orders issued by the coupmakers after seizing power on May 22, 2014 stand annulled after coup leader and Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Tuesday issued a nullification order.

Land rights campaigners are calling on the new government to revoke the National Council for Peace and Order’s forest reclamation policy and halt the enforcement of the newly amended National Park Act, thus bringing to an end the ongoing suppression of and violence against communities in the forest.

Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Gen Prawit Wongsuwan on Friday held a meeting of the National Security Policy Committee and some security agencies to pass on the security tasks from the junta to the next elected government, sources said.

Two more villagers, accused of encroachment in Saithong National Park in Chaiyaphum province, were sent to jail by the Appeals Court on Tuesday, while the remaining three villagers are scheduled to learn their fate on Wednesday.