<p>The Criminal Court is likely to deliver its ruling by the end of this year on a case in which a stockbroker has been prosecuted for posting comments on Same Sky or <a href="http://prachatai.com/english/search/node/fah diew kan">Fah Diew Kan</a> webboard in 2009.</p>

<p>On 22 Nov, Roi Et Provincial Court sentenced Uthai (family name withheld) to three years in prison for lèse majesté, but suspended the jail term for two years.</p>

<p>Dear President Obama,</p> <p>On behalf of The Network of Family Members and People Affected by the Article 112 (called the 112 Family Network) and other joint organizations, I would like to welcome you to Thailand and would like to hand this letter to you and ask you to support us to raise our concerns to Thai government.</p>

<p>The police have decided to prosecute <a href="http://www.prachatai.com/english/category/somsak-jeamteerasakul">Somsak Jeamteerasakul</a>, a historian at Thammasat University, for lèse majesté, after the army lodged a <a href="http://www.prachatai.com/english/node/2510">complaint</a> against him over a year ago.</p>

<p>Amnesty International issued an Urgent Action Appeal on 8 November for 4 men accused of lèse majesté in Bahrain.&nbsp; The following information is copied from the Appeal.</p>

<p>Hope that the lese majeste law might be amended under the Yingluck Shinawatra government was unceremoniously dashed last week.</p>

<p>A bill proposed by academics and citizens to change Article 112 of the Criminal Code has been dismissed by the Speaker of Parliament.</p>

<p>A Bangkok court acquitted the netizen Surapak Phuchaisaeng two days ago of charges of insulting the king (lèse-majesté), for which he had been <a href="http://en.rsf.org/thailand-new-cases-suggest-no-change-in-13-09-2011,40978.html">remanded in custody since September last year</a>.</p>

<p>On 31 October 2012, Thailand’s Criminal Court in Bangkok dismissed charges against Mr. Surapak P., a defendant facing charges under the lèse majesté law (Article 112) and the Computer-related Crime Act 2007. It is very rare for a defendant to be able to convince the Court that the evidence used against him could have been fabricated. Prior to this, only one lèse majesté defendant, “<a href="http://prachatai.com/english/search/node/bento">Bento</a>”, was acquitted for similar reasons by arguing that the phone line used to access the internet was not registered in her name.</p>

<p>On 31 Oct, the Criminal Court acquitted <a href="http://prachatai.com/english/category/suraphak">Suraphak Phuchaisang</a> of lèse majesté charges, and released a summary version of the verdict to reporters.&nbsp; Here is a translation of the official summary verdict:</p>

<p>A man accused of lèse majesté by his own brother has been denied bail by the court for the second time since he was detained pending trial last month.</p>

<p>On 3 Oct, Prachatai interviewed the only son of <a href="http://www.prachatai.com/english/category/thanthawut-thaweewarodomkul">Thanthawut Thaweewarodomkul</a>, a lèse majesté prisoner sentenced to 13 years in jail, when he came with his grandpa to visit his father at Bangkok Remand Prison for the first time since the end of his school semester.</p>