<p>The Military Court has for the first time in history suspended the jail term for a lèse majesté conviction in the case of a pro-establishment yellow shirt accused of publishing a false royal statement.</p> <p>The Military Court of Bangkok on Tuesday, 29 September 2015, sentenced Niran Yaowapa, a former editor of <a href="http://manager.co.th/home/">ASTV Manager Online</a>, a yellow-shirt news outlet, to five years imprisonment under Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lèse majesté law, and Article 14 of the 2007 Computer Crime Act for importing illegal computer content.</p>

<p dir="ltr">An ultra-royalist organisation and a pro-coup monk have organised rallies in front of the US embassy in Bangkok, calling the US and human rights groups not to criticise the lese majeste law and to send back people allegedly defaming the Thai monarchy believed to be in the US. &nbsp;</p>

<p>A pro-coup Buddhist monk known for leading anti-election mobs prior to the 2014 coup d’état has urged the US and Human Rights Watch, a human rights civil society group, not to touch Thailand’s lèse majesté law or intervene in its domestic affairs. &nbsp;</p>

<p>The military and criminal courts for the first time have disagreed over which court should have the jurisdiction to try a lèse majesté suspect.</p> <p>The Criminal Court on Ratchadaphisek Road, Bangkok, on Tuesday, 22 September 2015, ruled that it has jurisdiction over the case of 52-year-old Sirapop (surname withheld due to privacy concerns), suspected of offenses under Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lèse majesté law.</p>

<p>Thai police officers detained an elderly writer after he made comments about the new constitutional draft, which they said might affect national security. &nbsp;</p> <p>Police officers on Saturday afternoon, 12 September 2015, detained a 70-year-old independent writer known by his penname Bundit Aneeya, after he made suggestions at a seminar on the new constitution drafting process at Thammasat University, Tha Prachan Campus, Bangkok.</p>

<p dir="ltr">Despite the possibility of heavier jail term, an anti-junta activist charged with violating Thai junta’s political gathering ban vows to stand firm on principles and fight on.</p> <p>The Court of Pathumwan District, Bangkok, on Friday morning, 11 September 2015, held the first plaintiff examination hearing on a case of Apichat P., an anti-coup activist, who has been charged with violating the junta’s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO)’s Order No. 7/2014, which prohibits any political gathering of more than five persons.</p>

<div>The Supreme Court on Friday issued an arrest warrant for a woman accused of posting lèse majesté content on the now-defunct Prachatai web forums in 2008 after she did not show up to hear the verdict.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The Supreme Court on Friday morning was scheduled to read the verdict against Noppawan T., who was accused of using the username ‘Bento’ to post lèse majesté comments on the web forum. </div>

<p>The Supreme Court has granted bail to an elderly anti-establishment red shirt accused of defaming the monarchy for uploading lèse majesté audio clips.</p> <p>The Supreme Court on Wednesday, 9 September 2015, released on bail lèse majesté suspect Chaleaw J., a 56-year-old tailor from the northeastern province of Chaiyaphum, after six days imprisonment in Bangkok Remand Prison.</p>

<p>The Appeal Court has sentenced an elderly anti-establishment red shirt man, once believed to be the mastermind of an anti-monarchy&nbsp;<a href="http://www.prachatai.com/english/category/banpodj-network">Banpodj Network</a>,&nbsp;to five years imprisonment during an in camera hearing. &nbsp;</p>

<p>Prosecutors in Isan in Thailand’s Northeast, have postponed an indictment of a lese majeste case involving a well known anti-establishment redshirt figure, Sombat Boonngamanong, aka. Nuling.</p> <p>On Wednesday, 26 August 2015, the prosecutor’s office of the northeastern province of Roi-Et, postponed the indictment of Sombat Boonngamanong, the leader of Red Sunday, &nbsp;red shirt. Sombat is accused of offenses under Article 112 of the Criminal Crime Code, the lese majeste law, and Article 14 of the Computer Crime Code, which forbids importing illegal online contents.</p>

<p>A Thai military officer has filed a lèse majesté complaint against Sulak Sivaraksa, a renowned royalist and political science scholar known for his firm stand against the lèse majesté law, for allegedly criticising Thai monarchs of the early 20th century, King Rama V and Rama VII. &nbsp;</p>

<p>Thai police have arrested two lèse majesté suspects accused of making false claims about the monarchy for financial gain.</p> <p>According to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.khaosod.co.th/view_newsonline.php?newsid=1440127416">Khaosod News</a>, Pol Col Pairoj Rojjanakhajorn, Director of&nbsp;Section 2 of the Crime Suppression Division (CSD) and Pol Lt Col Torsak Panklinput, at 4 pm on Thursday, 20 August 2015, held a press briefing on the arrest of Kittiphop S., 23, and Wiset P., 30, after the provincial court in northern Kamphaeng Phet Province issued arrest warrants for the two.</p>