<div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The Thai Criminal Court found Thitinan K. guilty of lèse majesté and sentenced her to one year in jail, but suspended the jail term for three years because the defendant suffered from mental illness.&nbsp;</div> <div> </div></div>

<div> <div>The Thai Appeal Court on May 8 affirmed the decision of the Court of First Instance, sentencing Ekkachai H. to three years and four months in jail and a fine of 66,666 baht for selling VCDs of a documentary on the Thai royal succession by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and copies of Wikileaks cables.&nbsp;</div> <div> </div></div>

<div><span>The Thai Appeal Court on Thursday upheld the verdict of the Court of First Instance, sentencing Yotwarit Chuklom aka Jeng Dokjik, a comedian turned red-shirt activist and politician to two years in jail for lèse majesté, without suspended jail term.&nbsp;</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The court found Yotwarit guilty of lèse majesté for a speech and a gesture, at a red-shirt United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) rally on 28 March 2010.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The 2010 red-shirt demonstration was to pressure the then Prime Minister </div>

<p>Paris-Bangkok-Geneva, April 29, 2014. Thailand must release labour rights activist Somyot Prueksakasemsuk and promote a free, open, and informed public debate on lèse-majesté, FIDH and OMCT, within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, and Union for Civil Liberty (UCL) said today. On April 30, Somyot, a UCL member and the former editor of the Voice of Taksin magazine, will mark three years in jail.</p>

<p><strong>On the Occasion of the International Thai Studies Conference</strong><strong>, Sydney, Australia</strong><strong>, 24 April 2014</strong></p> <p><img alt="" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7420/14002282941_60dd82de55_z.jpg" /></p> <p><img alt="" src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2925/14025462953_be7842be64_z.jpg" /></p>

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<div>&nbsp;</div> <div>A Thai mother and father have sued their daughter, a vocal anti-establishment red-shirt residing in the UK, for posting video clips of herself defaming the monarchy after they received a storm of hate phone calls from Thai loyalists.&nbsp;</div> <div> </div>

<div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The Criminal Court on Thursday acquitted a 65-year-old vendor of a charge of lèse majesté. He had been arrested for selling the banned book ‘The Devil’s Discus’ at yellow shirt rallies in 2006.</div> <p></p>

<div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The Appeal Court on Wednesday affirmed the decision of the Court of the First Instance, finding Surapak P. not guilty of creating a lèse majesté Facebook page, parodying the oath of succession of the monarch.&nbsp;</div> <div> </div></div>

<div>Aum Neko, a transgender student at Thammasat University who last year stirred a debate about compulsory student uniforms, is to be summoned next week by the police over a lèse majesté charge.&nbsp;</div> <p></p>

<div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Thai Supreme Court on Monday found Bandid Aneeya guilty for his writing and a speech but sentenced him to suspended jail terms because he is suffering mental illness.&nbsp;</div> <div> </div>

<div>&nbsp;</div> <div>A Thai court has ordered the trial on a lèse majesté case involving a book about the mysterious death of King Rama VIII to be held in camera. &nbsp;The defendant, which only sold the book, faces maximum jail term of 15 years.</div> <div> </div>