<p>Thai police arrested a man accused of defaming the monarchy on Facebook more than a year after the complaint was filed.</p>
<p>According to Bangkokbiznews, the Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD) police arrested Piya J., in eastern Bangkok. Piya was accused of violating the lèse majesté law or Article 112 of the Criminal Code and Article 14 of the 2007 Computer Crime Act for publishing illegal content on the Internet.</p>
<p>The police arrested the wife of a high-ranking police officer and charged her with lèse majesté for allegedly using the name of the monarchy to sell overpriced chili paste and other food products.</p>
<p>Pol Maj Gen Sombat Milintachinda, chief investigator of the Metropolitan Police, and several other police officers arrested Sudathip M., the 45-year-old wife of Pol Col Kowit M., former Director of Immigration Police of Samut Sakhon Province, after the criminal court issue a warrant for her arrest on lèse majesté charges.</p>
<div>The military court on Tuesday approved an arrest warrant for Nopporn Suppipat, a Thai energy businessman, accused of falsely claiming about the monarchy, in the scandal related to a high ranking officer and the family of the royal-assigned surname.<span style="font-size: 12px;">The military court on Tuesday approved an arrest warrant for Nopporn Suppipat, a Thai energy businessman, accused of making false claims about the monarchy, in the scandal related to high-ranking police officers and the family with a royally-assigned surname.</span></div>
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<p>Three brothers and two more people connected to a network of high ranking police officers charged with lèse majesté are accused of defaming the monarchy, illegal possession of weapons, robbery, and holding others for ransom. A total of seven people involved in this case have now been charged with lèse majesté. </p>
<p>The investigators on 28 November detained three siblings, Natthapol, Sitthisak, and Narong Akharapongpreecha, and Sutthisak Sutthijit and Chakan Phakphum, who are allegedly criminally associated with Pol Lt Gen Pongpat Chayapan.</p>
By Harrison George |
<p>For all its faults, Wikipedia has been a godsend to the Thai education system. Think of the thousands and thousands of term papers and theses that have benefitted from a judicious cut-and-paste job, sometimes on a massive scale, sometimes even with proper attribution. </p>
<p>In this way, Wikipedia has helped to secure a ready supply of suitably trained academics to serve the plagiarism-friendly educational institutions of the country.</p>
<p>Thai police on Wednesday banned “A Kingdom in Crisis,” written by embattled former Reuters journalist Andrew McGregor Marshall due to lèse majesté.</p>
<div>After the Bangkok Remand Prison attempted to separate red-shirt political prisoners from each other by sending them to several different prison zones, which was followed by the alleged beating to death of a red shirt by yellow-shirt inmates, a group of human rights lawyers has urged the prison to change its policy for the safety of political prisoners.</div>
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<div>Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) on Thursday submitted a letter to the Bangkok Remand Prison director asking the prison to review its assignment policy.
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<div>The military court rejected bail for a redshirt radio host in closed door trial.</div>
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<div>On Tuesday, the military court denied 800,000 baht bail to Kathawut B., a redshirt radio host charged with lèse majesté, due to the severity of the charge and the flight risk because the charge relates to the revered Thai monarchy, which equates to national security, according to iLaw.</div>
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<div>On Monday the Military Court tried Kathawut and another suspect who asked not to be identified in camera despite objections from the defendants and the presence of represent
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<p dir="ltr">The Military Court ruled to try two lese majeste defendants in closed doors, claiming that the charges were related to the monarchy and hence to the national security, according to <a href="http://freedom.ilaw.or.th/en">iLaw</a>.</p>
<p>On Tuesday morning, the Military Court, following suggestion from the staff judge advocates, announced that the trials of Kathawut B., a red-shirt radio host whose programs allegedly contained lese majeste contents, and a man who asked not to be named would be proceeded in camera.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>Please read the updated report <a href="http://prachatai.org/english/node/4415">here</a></em></p>
<p dir="ltr">The military arrested and filed a lese majeste charge against a 67-year-old man for writing messages deemed defaming the monarchy in a shopping mall’s restrooms.</p>
<p>Opas C., was captured by the mall’s employee on Wednesday and was later arrested by the military.</p>
<p>On Friday, the military brought him to the crime suppression unit and filed a charge under Article 112, or the lese majeste law, against him. He confessed that he wrote the message.</p>
<div>The Appeal Court on Friday affirmed the decision of the Court of First Instance to sentence Somyos Prueksakasemsuk to 10 years in jail for editing lèse majesté articles written by others.</div>
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<div>Somyos Prueksakasemsuk has been detained at Bangkok Remand Prison for almost four years.</div>
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<div>He was found guilty of being the editor of Voice of Taksin monthly magazine which published two articles deemed to insult the King.
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<div>The Criminal Court on Thursday found a taxi driver guilty of lèse majesté based on his conversation with a passenger and sentenced him to two years and six months in jail.</div>
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<div>The 43-year-old Yuthasak (last name withheld due to privacy concerns), the taxi driver, pleaded guilty before the court, according to <a href="http://freedom.ilaw.or.th/en/case/575">iLaw</a>. </div>
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<div>The topic of the conversation which later landed the driver in jail was inequality in Thai society. </div>
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