Lèse-majesté
28 Nov 2014
The military court on Friday made the unprecedented decision to grant bail to a lèse majesté suspect.
The Bangkok military court on Friday at 2 pm granted 400,000 baht bail to a man known by his pen name as Bundit Aneeya, a 73-year-old writer and translator, who was arrested on Wednesday for making a comment during a seminar that allegedly defamed the King.
The bail conditions include that the suspect will stop joining political activity and stop expressing opinion which may instigate the people.
28 Nov 2014
The Appeal Court on Friday affirmed the decision of the Court of First Instance to acquit the man who was accused by his own brother of defaming the King.
Yutthaphum (last name withheld due to privacy concerns), 35, was accused in 2009 of making inappropriate remarks or curses in the presence of his brother while watching the news on television showing HM the King in a wheelchair and buying and writing inappropriate words in parentheses on a CD on which was written ‘Stop offending HM the King’.
27 Nov 2014
As King Bhumibol is aging, it is undeniable that anxiety over the succession looms among Thais. Thongchai Winichakul, the renowned Thai historian, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, discussed the root of this anxiety
27 Nov 2014
The police on Thursday charged a 73-year-old writer for making a lèse majesté comment at a seminar. The old man had earlier been convicted of lèse majesté with the jail term suspended due to mental illness. If convicted again, his jail terms will accumulate.
The writer and social critic, using the pen name Bundit Aneeya, has been detained since Wednesday noon after he spoke about the monarchy during a forum organized by the Innovation Party at a building on Ratchadaphisek Road.
25 Nov 2014
For the fourth time the military court refused to grant bail to a man accused of writing graffiti mainly criticizing the junta and making reference to the king in the restrooms of a shopping mall, despite the suspect’s severe health conditions.
The military court on Monday for the fourth time declined a 2.5 million baht bail request of Opas C., a 67-year-old man charged with writing seditious messages which expressed disapproval of the junta and the Democrat Party and contained a physical description of the king.
According t
24 Nov 2014
The military court on Monday sentenced a website editor to nine years in jail for publishing an article deemed to defame the King on a popular anti-establishment news aggregator. The sentence was halved because the defendant pleaded guilty.
The man, whose penname is Somsak Pakdeedech, oversees the content on the Thai E-News website, which mainly aggregates political news from various sources, including Prachatai.
23 Nov 2014
A court on Saturday approved an arrest warrant for two high ranking police officers accused of defaming the King, asking for bribes, money laundering and misconduct.
On the same warrant, three other police officers and three civilians were named.
18 Nov 2014
The court on Tuesday approved a police custody petition to detain Jaruwan E., 26, for 12 days, despite objections from the defendant.
She did not submit any bail request since she is destitute and has no lawyer representing her.
After the ruling, she was taken to the Central Women Correctional Institution, Bangkok.
On Sunday night, she was arrested by a combined military and police force and was detained at a military camp for a night for interrogation.
18 Nov 2014
The military court on Tuesday sentenced the red-shirt host of a political podcast programme to 10 years in jail for defaming the King on his programme, but since the defendant pleaded guilty, the court reduced the sentence by half to five years in jail.
The civilian criminal courts have normally sentenced defendants to between three and five years for each count of lèse majesté, but in this case the military court gave 10 years for a single count.
Kathawut B.
17 Nov 2014
A combined force of military and police on Monday evening arrested and charged a man and a woman for making false claims about a royalist project for personal benefit.
According to ASTV-Manager Online, Chainarin K., former president of the Secretariat of Admiring the King and Pitchakan W, were accused by Somlab Kitiyakorn, another former president, of using the organization to find benefit themselves.
The loss from the false claims was abo
17 Nov 2014
Prachatai looked into record of those who just campagined for the media freedom -- six months after the coup.
17 Nov 2014
Anuwat Tinarat, a local politician and red-shirt leader from northeastern Nakhon Ratchasima Province (commonly known as ‘Khorat’) has been charged with lèse majesté under Article 112.
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