<p>A man accused of lèse majesté for making false claims about the King’s property has been sent to a psychiatric hospital after three months of pre-charge detention. </p>
By John Draper |
<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7211f4b6-4ac4-d896-f3fb-3f276b0fe182">The August 16 ‘</span><a href="https://www.bikeformom2015.com/">Bike for Mom</a>’ cycling event personally sponsored and led by His Royal Highness Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn set a world record – with 294,863 registered, of whom 146,266 cyclists nationwide (40,000 in Bangkok alone) successfully met the Guinness Book of World Records’ criteria, blowing Taiwan’s previous record of 72,919 out of the water.</p>
By Thai Lawyers for Human Rights |
<div>Early August, Chiang Mai military court ordered a young mother, Ssiwimon, to serve 56 years in prison, reduced to 28 due to her confession, for lèse-majesté </div>
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<p>The wife of Ah Kong, the elderly lèse majesté convict who died of cancer while in custody in 2012, continues to pursue a case against the Department of Corrections of Thailand at the Civil Court over her husband's death.</p>
<div>The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a programer not guilty of lese majeste related to Facebook posts. </div>
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<div>The Supreme Court ruled to affirm the decisions of the Court of First Instance and the Appeal Court, to acquit Surapak P.
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By UN High Commissioner for Human Rights |
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<div>11 August 2015</div>
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<div>Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Ravina Shamdasani</div>
<div>Location: Geneva</div>
<div>Subjects: Thailand / lèse-majesté</div>
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<div>We are appalled by the shockingly disproportionate prison terms handed down over the past few months in lèse-majesté cases in Thailand.
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<p>A military court in northern Thailand has sentenced a hotel employee with two children to 28 years behind bars for posting Facebook messages alleged to defame the Thai monarchy.</p>
By Kongpob Areerat |
<p>A Thai military court has sentenced a man accused of defaming the Thai monarchy on a social network to 30 years in jail in a trial held in camera. The ruling is the heaviest jail term ever recorded for a lèse majesté case.</p>
<p>On Friday morning, 7 August 2015, the Bangkok Military Court sentenced Pongsak S. to 60 years imprisonment for offences under Article 112 or the lèse majesté law and Article 14 of the Computer Crime Act (importing illegal content into a computer system).</p>
<p>A military court in northern Thailand has sentenced a man diagnosed with psychosis to five years in prison for destroying the King’s portrait.</p>
<p>The military court of the northern province of Chiang Rai on Thursday morning, 6 August 2015, sentenced Samak P., a 48-year-old man accused under Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lèse majesté law, to 10 years imprisonment after the suspect pleaded guilty as charged last month.</p>
<p>Since the defendant pleaded guilty, the court reduced the jail term by half to five years.</p>
<p>A network of civil society organisations and human rights defenders have issued a joint statement, calling on Thai lawmakers not to approve the appointment of the candidates to Thailand’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).</p>
By Human Rights Watch |
<p dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.hrw.org/thailand">Thailand</a>’s national assembly should reject the nominees for the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), whose selection process did not meet international standards, Human Rights Watch said today. Upcoming revisions to the Thai constitution should ensure that the NHRC is credible, independent, and accountable, and that its commissioners are chosen in a transparent manner, open to public scrutiny and broad-based participation.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1436851966&section=11&typecate=06">Khaosod English</a>: Thailand's Minister of Justice said he has asked the French ambassador to help extradite Thais charged with insulting the monarchy, a crime punishable by up to 15 years in prison.</p>
<p>Gen. Paiboon Khumchaya met with the ambassador, Thierry Viteau, at the Ministry of Justice yesterday. </p>