<div>On 28 December 2015 a military court sentenced Tanitsak to eight years imprisonment, reduced to four years in light of his guilty plea. A defendant in the lèse majesté case concerning the distribution of Banpodj audio programs, Tanitsak, known as Neng Jungnup, is 50 years old.</div> <p>&nbsp;</p> <div> </div>

<p dir="ltr">A German expat in Chonburi province went to police yesterday to complain that not only was someone impersonating him on Facebook but doing it to post insulting messages about the monarchy.</p> <p>Manfred Peter Gallus, 58, told police he had nothing to do with a Facebook profile used primarily to publish crude remarks about the royal family, libelous statements punishable by up to 15 years in prison per offense under the law.</p>

<p>The Court Jurisdiction Committee (CJC) has ruled that the Military Court has jurisdiction over a lèse majesté case concerning a former blogger, saying that the lèse majesté content he posted was still online after the 2014 coup d’état.</p>

<p dir="ltr">Thai Criminal Court sentenced a man accused of defaming the monarchy on facebook to nine years imprisonment with a sentence reduced by one third.</p> <p dir="ltr">The Criminal Court on Ratchadapisek Rd, Bangkok, on Wednesday, 20 January 2016, sentenced Piya J., a 46 year-old programmer of offenses under Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lèse majesté law, to nine years in jail.</p>

<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span id="docs-internal-guid-7f2074c6-5dd9-7f7c-14b9-6a79dbdbb192">Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?</span></strong></em></p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7f2074c6-5dd9-7f7c-14b9-6a79dbdbb192">Juvenal (Satire VI, lines 347–8). Literally, "Who will guard the guards themselves?"</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p>

<div>Phongsak S., the person using the Facebook name “Sam Parr,” is the most recent conviction by the military court under Article 112, the so-called lèse majesté law. On August 7, 2015, he was sentenced to imprisonment for 60 years on the basis of six posts on popular social media site Facebook. </div>

<div> <p>The right to freedom of expression under the military junta all year round of 2015 remains critical. The restrictions seemed to be a bit relaxed the middle of the year, but as the year is drawing to its close, it has become dramatically serious. Attitude adjustment continues to be the common tactic used, though the format has changed from summoning for a meeting to visiting the persons at home.</p> </div>

<p>The authorities have transferred a Bike for Dad plot suspect to a remand facility on a military base after the junta’s legal office filed charges against him under the lèse majesté law.</p>

<p>Thai Military Court has extended the pre-trial detention of a man accused of creating a copycat Facebook profile under his friend’s name to take revenge by posting lèse majesté messages and images.</p>

<p dir="ltr">The Military Court has handed down an eight-year jail term for an elderly man charged with lèse majesté for uploading and sharing audio clips from the so-called anti-monarchy Banpodj Network.</p> <p dir="ltr">The Military Court of Bangkok on Monday, 28 December 2015, during an in camera deposition hearing, sentenced Tanitsak (surname withheld due to privacy concerns), a 50-year-old photographer’s assistant in a news crew from Isan, Thailand’s Northeast, to eight years in prison under Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lèse majesté law.</p>

<p>The Military Court for a second time has denied bail to a factory worker accused under the lèse majesté law of defaming the King’s favourite dog.</p> <p>The Military Court of Bangkok on Friday, 25 December 2015, denied bail to Thanakorn S. with a 900,000 baht guarantee after granting police permission to detain him in custody for a second period of 12 days with the possibility of further extensions.</p>

<div>Oh (not his real name) is in his 30s. Since June 2014, just shortly after the Coup, he has been imprisoned at Ubon Ratchathani Central Prison for one an half years. His case happened and ended silently. His life behind bars has also been going on silently.</div> <p></p>