<p>The Administrative Court has sentenced an anti-corruption activist to 14 months imprisonment for contempt of court, but the jail term is suspended for three years.</p>
<p>On 21 August 2017, the Supreme Administrative Court sentenced Srisuwan Janya, Secretary-General of a political group called the Association to Protect the Thai Constitution (APTC), to 14 months in prison and a fine of 700,000 baht. </p>
<p>The Criminal Court has handed a one year suspended jail term to a junta critic accused of contempt of court.</p>
<p>On 21 August 2017, the Criminal Court sentenced Watana Muangsook, a well-known politician from the Pheu Thai Party, to one year in prison and a 500 baht fine for violating Articles 15, 30, and 31 of the Criminal Procedure Code, laws related to contempt of court. </p>
<p>He was charged with broadcasting through Facebook live from the court premises about another case.</p>
<p dir="ltr">A provincial court has granted bail to a prominent anti-junta activist accused of contempt of court after he denied the charge.</p>
<p dir="ltr">On 31 May 2017, the Provincial Court of Khon Kaen held a hearing for seven youth activists accused of contempt of court for organising activities on 10 February 2017 in symbolic support of <a href="http://prachatai.org/english/category/jatuphat-boonpattararaksa">Pai Dao Din</a> that were designed to draw attention to issues in Thailand’s justice system.</p>
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<div>Six student activists have chosen to petition the court over their contempt of court charges, arguing their symbolic actions and songs outside a provincial court in support of Jatuphat ‘Pai Dao Din’ Boonpattararaksa were a legitimate exercise of the freedom of expression.</div>
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<div>On 8 May 2017, <a href="https://prachatai.com/english/node/7010">the activists</a> delivered a petition against their charges to Khon Kaen Provincial Court.
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<div>A labour rights lawyer has been imprisoned for defaming a court, leaving stranded his five-month pregnant wife.
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<div>Two pro-democracy groups have called for charges against seven student activists to be withdrawn.
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<p>The authorities have accused three more youth activists of contempt of court for joining a peaceful gathering demanding Pai Dao Din’s release from prison.</p>
<p>On 20 March 2017, <a href="http://www.tlhr2014.com/th/?p=3760">Thai Lawyers for Human Rights</a> reported that the well-known anti-junta activist Sirawit ‘Ja New’ Serithiwat; Panupong Sritananuwat, an activist from the <a href="https://prachatai.org/english/category/dao-din?page=1">Dao Din group</a> based at Khon Kaen University; and another law student who requested anonymity had received court notices.</p>