<p>Military prosecutors have filed lèse majesté charges against a man from an ethnic minority in northern Thailand who claims to possess telepathic powers.</p> <p><a href="https://tlhr2014.wordpress.com/2016/04/21/sao_prosecution-2/">Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR)</a>, reported that at the Military Court of Bangkok on Wednesday, 20 April 2016, staff of the military Judge Advocate General’s Department indicted Sao (surname withheld due to privacy concerns) under Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lèse majesté law.</p>

<p dir="ltr">Two lѐse majesté convicts have been released on royal pardons after being imprisoned for almost two years.</p> <p dir="ltr">The Bureau of the Royal Household of the Thai Monarchy recently approved the requests for royal pardons from an editor of the <a href="http://www.thaienews.blogspot.com/">Thai E News website</a> with the pseudonym ‘Somsak Pakdeedech’ and Pol Sgt Maj Prasit Chaisrisa, a former Member of Parliament (MP) for the Pheu Thai Party, who were both convicted under Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lѐse majesté law.</p>

<p>The Court has ruled that Somsak Jeamteerasakul, the embattled lèse majesté critic and ex-Thammasat lecturer now in self-imposed exile, is not guilty of leaving Thammasat University after the 2014 coup d’état.</p> <p>The Administrative Court on Monday, 11 April 2016, ruled that an order to fire Somsak Jeamteerasakul,56, was illegal.</p> <p>The court reasoned that it did not appear that Somsak intended to be absent from his lectureship at Thammasat University and that his position at the university prior to his self-imposed exile shall remain intact.</p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">French edition of Marie Claire magazine has been banned because of an article related a member of Thai royal family. &nbsp; &nbsp;</p>

<p>A real estate dealer has been sentenced to 12 years in prison under the lèse majesté law for making claims about the former royal consort for business interests. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>On Tuesday, 5 April 2016, the Criminal Court sentenced Boontham Boonthepprathan, 65, a property dealer, to 16 years in jail under Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lèse majesté law.&nbsp; The court reduced the sentenced by one fourth to 12 years because the accused was cooperative during the trial.</p>

<div><em>Thailand’s military courts have handled more than 1,400 cases involving more than 1,600 civilian defendants. The most pressing problem has been the overuse of pre-trial detention against those accused of lèse majesté or criminal possession of war weapons, which simply turned them into “forgotten prisoners.” &nbsp;If they decide to fight the charges, these civilians would face almost indefinite detention – both because of the seriousness of the charges against them and the Court’s own slow procedures.&nbsp;</em></div> <div> </div>

<div>Once I began to write, I realized that selecting the topic of the lives of the ‘beloved’ of Article 112 prisoners was not a very good idea. Relationships are never an easy matter — they are complicated and very personal. These relationships have been lacerated and seriously wounded by politics. My questions unearthed and scattered dust from the painful past and it was as if the retelling served to hammer in the injustice of what has happened. Simple questions about the future became filled with profound emotion.</div> <p></p>

<div><em>When Anchan was arrested last year, she was 58 years old and was about to retired after working for the Revenue Department for more than 30 years. Because she has become a lese majeste suspect, she will not get any pension and benefits.</em></div>

<h1><a href="http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/politics/891940/top-villain-crackdown-set-to-intensify" style="font-size: 12px;" target="_blank">When it comes to crackdowns on “influential people,”</a><span style="font-size: 12px;">&nbsp;there are several reasons to worry.</span></h1> <div> <p>The first is that the people doing the crackdowns are usually acting in the service of “villains” at the top of the military and police.</p> </div>

<div>Thai Police said nine people including two of Thailand’s leading scholars, Sulak Sivaraksa and Somsak Jeamteerasakul, are likely to face lèse majesté charges over a televised academic discussion on the lèse majesté law.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><a href="https://web.facebook.com/BBCThai/photos/a.1527194487501586.1073741828.1526071940947174/1747208862166813/?type=3&amp;theater">BBC Thai</a> reported that Pol Gen Srivara Ransibrahmanakul, Deputy Police Chief, on Wednesday, 9 March 2016, said that nine people and two corporations involved in airing a talk show in 2013 called Tob Jod (The An </div>

<p dir="ltr">The military court has granted bail to a factory worker accused of of lèse majesté for mocking the King’s dog.</p> <p>After denying bail requests twice, the Military Court of Bangkok on Tuesday, 8 March 2016, granted 500,000 baht bail to Thanakorn S., a 27-year-old factory worker.</p> <p>Thanakorn is accused under Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lèse majesté law, for clicking ‘like’ and posting or sharing a message mocking Thong Daeng, a well-known female copper-coloured dog, the King’s favourite pet while it was alive, on facebook.</p>

<p>An officer of the Administrative Court has said that Somsak Jeamteerasakul, the embattled lèse majesté critic and ex-Thammasat lecturer in self-imposed exile, is not guilty of being absent without leave because he faced grave danger.</p>