<div> <div>Citing national peace and order, a military court has given the green light to the prosecution’s request to hold the trial of six lèse majesté suspects in secret. </div></div>

<p>The Criminal Court on Thursday ordered a businesswoman to be imprisoned for 12 days as she awaits trial on several grave offenses, including, most notably, insulting the monarchy.&nbsp;</p> <p>Although Monta Yokrattanakan, 56, has been embroiled in series of allegations of human trafficking and abusing justice system for the last week, the investigation took a dramatic turn today after police also charged her with royal defamation, a crime punishable by up to 15 years in jail.</p>

<div>A report reveals that Thai justice system hardly take mental-illness of lèse-majesté suspects into account and the number of lèse-majesté cases against mental-illnesses has increased after the 2014 coup.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5568/15214891692_e68b09995d_o.png" style="width: 640px; height: 452px;" /></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On Tuesday, 28 June 2016, Thailand’s Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) <a href="http://www.tlhr2014.com/th/?p=712">published</a> a report showing the obvious increase in number of lèse- </div>

<div>Burin Intin, a 28-year-old welder from northern Thailand, was arrested during an anti-coup “Stand Still” protest, held on 27 April 2016, at the Victory Monument in Bangkok. Unlike other group members who were arrested and subsequently released, Burin was promptly charged with two counts of lèse majesté. He was denied bail, has been detained until today and is now on his third custody order, without much public knowledge. &nbsp;</div> <p></p>

<p dir="ltr">After two years behind bars, a former engineering student convicted under the lèse majesté law is determined to go back to school and begin a new life.</p> <p>On 23 June 2016, Akaradej (last name withheld due to privacy concerns), a former engineering student, was released after serving two years and three days in prison for offences under Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lèse majesté law, and Article 14 of the 2007 Computer Crime Act, a law against importation of illegal computer contents.</p>

<p>At a trial held in camera, the Military Court has handed down a five-year jail term to a man charged with lèse majesté for uploading and sharing audio clips from the so-called anti-monarchy ‘Banpodj Network’.</p>

<p>Despite the risk of several years in jail, a northern ethnic minority man with mental illness charged under the lèse majesté law has pleaded innocent and vowed to fight the case in the Military Court.</p> <p>The Military Court on Monday, 20 June 2016, held a deposition hearing for Sao (surname withheld due to privacy concerns), suspected of offences under Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lèse majesté law, who claims to possess telepathic powers.</p> <p>Sao pleaded innocent and vowed the fight the case.</p>

<p>A network of vocational school alumni and other royalists urge people to protect the monarchy, pressing the government to prosecute people who insulted it.</p> <p>At 12 noon on Sunday, 19 June 2016, a network of alumni from 24 vocational schools and many other royalists gathered at the Royal Plaza in central Bangkok to pay respect to the equestrian statue of Rama V and to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the coronation of Rama IX, the current King,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.matichon.co.th/news/180478">Matichon Online&nbsp;</a>reported.&nbsp;</p>

<p>After five years in prison, Somyot Prueksakasemsuk, a long-time labour activist turned lèse-majesté suspect, has urged the authorities to improve prison conditions, saying prisoners’ rights deteriorated greatly after the 2014 coup d’état.</p> <p>Suwanna Tanlek, a pro-democracy activist, on Thursday morning, 16 June 2016, submitted a petition to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). The petition was written by Somyot Prueksakasemsuk, former editor of the now-defunct Voice of Taksin magazine, charged with offences under Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lèse majesté law.</p>

<p>A Thai police officer has filed an additional criminal defamation charge against an embattled defence lawyer.</p>

<p>Despite faint hopes, the parents of two Facebook users initially arrested for mocking the junta leader and later charged with lѐse majesté have requested the Office of His Majesty’s Principal Private Secretary to allow bail for their children.</p>

<div>Rungsira, pen-named Sirapop, has fighted the lèse majesté case in the military court for over two years. His story is littled known to the media. When he attorney asked if there were another coup and he were again summoned: “Would you go?” He replied: "If there were another coup and I was again summoned, I promise you: I would not go!”</div> <p></p>