The mayor of Sattahip's Samae San Sub-district took the unusual step of defying the government's protest ban by leading 100 local residents to demonstrate outside Pattaya Provincial Court over the military's repossession of land they've occupied for a century. Prasert Pitakorn and the residents have sued the Royal Thai Navy and Treasury Department to give up their claim on a 1,900-rai parcel of land they claim belongs to the Royal Household Bureau within 30 days.